I’m troubled by conspiracy theories a lot in today’s social climate because they are intended to be provocative, and those who endorse or argue for the validity of such things might feel as though a power greater than us, like the Illuminati, pulls all the puppet strings, and can’t be proven to exist or not exist, which makes those who believe they exist, make a statement that is… frustrating.
“PROVE ME WRONG”.
No. I will not prove you wrong. You must argue your point. You are not immediately right, and everyone else has to prove otherwise. You must be able to argue. Don’t attempt to take a shot at people’s egos by calling them sheep, or telling them to wake up. If you had an argument to make, if you had a valid point with evidence (not anecdote), then by all means, enlighten us. Instead, you put the work on to everyone else, and feel smug when you can’t be disproven, or better yet, when the conversation escalates into sheer insults. I’m sorry, but if your rant starts with the phrase “Wake up, people!”, you’ve lost me. You don’t need to sensationalize. You don’t need to keep passing along the responsibility of academic integrity to everyone else.
No, you didn’t do research. You are not smarter than the experts. You watched a YouTube video that provided no evidence, just posed questions with enough vagueness for our minds to creatively connect things that do not have enough data to support. You are being harmful with your stupidity, masquerading as cleverness. You argue as a sophist, not a philosopher or a scientist. Just stop, before you embarrass yourself.