Okay, so first you start talking about conspiracy theories at a party. Okay, not the greatest discussion for 11:30 PM on the 31st, especially after a few drinks, but hey, I can dig it.
So then you start talking about how the term is demeaning, and go off on this massive tangent about what a “conspiracy” means, and what qualifies as a “conspiracy theory”, as if this somehow made your point that I was being “closed-minded”. But okay, it was confusing and I was drunk so I indulged it.
Then you start talking about Fukushima, and how it’s killing eagles and how my hair is going to be falling out within the next few years due to radiation poisoning and all kinds of shit which is basically insane (FXMaster, don’t even fucking start). When I whip out my smartphone to check the claims, you see nothing wrong with how the sites talking about this claim provide very flimsy evidence and happen to be the same kind of sites that talk about the illuminati preparing for takeover. But what the hell, maybe that was just the wrong site.
And then you claim that everything is orders of magnitude more dangerous than the government claims. And then when I ask for decent evidence for the claims made, you dodge by claiming that there wouldn’t be evidence anyways, and after I point out that you’re shirking the burden of proof and that that’s not good enough, you assert boldfacedly that “things like the burden of proof exist to keep the system in place and bolster the establishment”.
Come the *fuck *on. You know I respect the hell out of you, and you’ve achieved a lot in your life. But telling someone who spends a lot of time looking into science, the scientific method, and the fruits thereof that logic and reason exist to keep the establishment in power… Ugh. No. I get irked enough when someone pisses in the fountain of collected knowledge; this is more like rerouting the inflow pipes to your dick.
And then you claim that I’ll figure it out eventually. That it’s something I’ll learn. That it’s something that comes with age, that people figure out. Never mind that most people don’t just “figure out” with age that the government intentionally understates the danger of essentially every compound, and that a great many people don’t believe that, ever - an argument I actually brought up. But you’ve already basically stated that you find logic a waste of time…
Man, you might wanna lay off the drugs. Yeah, I know you’ll say that the studies showing that weed makes people paranoid are sponsored by the corporate overlords, but god damn. You are paranoid to the point of delusion and it’s freaking me out. Stop hiding behind your “wisdom” (read: age) as an excuse to never back up any of the things you hold for self-explanatory, and expect us to believe. Some of the things you said are simply insane, and as an adult professional who is damn cool in almost every other regard, it bothers me to see you act like this. Or at least don’t kill my buzz like that.