Conspiracy theories - people obsess about them while others attempt to convince others. Over the weekend I watched a couple episodes of a show on Netflix, Unsealed: Conspiracy Files.
I personally am not a conspiracy theorist, I just like to listen to the different theories people come up with. Some can be so elaborate, while others seem so simple.
The topics of the episodes ranged from weird animal hybrid creatures created by a lab in the United States to the United States government creating zombies to mind control. They touched on mind control and the theories surrounding Big Foot.
All topics seemed far-fetched and ridiculous, yet some lines of thought they propose almost make sense. The people speaking on the topics seem to wholeheartedly believe what they're saying which is somewhat convincing in itself.
In each of the episodes I watched/listened to as I cleaned my house, they would have me at one point. I'd start thinking that the points they were making and the evidence they presented was cohesive until they would bring up something completely out there.
An example of this is the thoughts they presented on Big Foot, a humanoid creature, taller than a human but covered completely in long fur/hair. These "animals" have been seen all around the world with tales originating in Canada, California, and Tibet.
Since scientists continue to find new species I was somewhat open to what they were saying. People have grainy videos and photos of the creature claiming they have seen it, while an artifact found in Tibet is said to be indisputable: the Pangboche Hand.
It was after that when the show completely lost me. All of a sudden the show was talking about aliens! Apparently UFO sightings are quite typical following the sighting of a Big Foot, which led those on the show to begin tying the two together.
Big Foot then became a possible creature left by aliens to check if our planet was habitable, and was either left to die by aliens, or were the aliens in question.
Each of the episodes I watched followed this general pattern. They'd present plausible facts and then take things too far. They'd begin making "if" statements, which to me, completely discredited what they were trying to point out. "If" is in itself a conditional clause, if this is true then this is possible. The problem is that the word "if" literally makes anything possible and we're no longer speaking of tangible evidence.
Now you might be wondering after the description of an episode above why I was watching the series in the first place. Possibilities in the world are endless and whether the entire world is being run by a group of people made up of secret societies or if Big Foot is an alien; I just find it interesting to see and learn about the different conspiracy theories out there.
Some theories do seem plausible and learning the different ways people see the world is interesting.
For the most part the conspiracy theorists drew parallels to movies. Robots led to theories of machines developing a consciousness, which was reminiscent of "I, Robot" or the classic Terminator movie series focused on Skynet and how the machines will take over when they become self aware.
It's interesting to sometimes think about the "what if's" but I find it quite amazing for people to dedicate their entire lives to these theories and in proving them right.
