I’ve always enjoyed a good conspiracy theory, even if they’re mostly, shall we say, surreal or bizarre.
Occasionally a theory will seem to have some real substance to it e.g. there’s a really strong case to be made that the CIA, the Mob, the Cuban exiles, big oil, or a combination of all of them did for JFK.
Mostly however they just seem outlandish. You know what I mean; NASA faked the moon landings, Aliens crashed at Roswell, aircraft contrails contain poison or mind-warping drugs, a ‘New World Order’ of shadowy elites seeks global hegemony, etc and so forth.
Some of my favourite ‘conspiracies’ focus on the world of ‘celebrity’, and frankly belong in the strange and weird world of tinfoil hat wearing fantasists. One positive thing in their favour however is their huge capacity to entertain us all. It’s real ‘man down the pub’ stuff.
For your edification, Elvis faked his death to escape the limelight and seek seclusion in the remote Appalachians… or is on the run after the Mob put a contract on him for informing on them to the Feds, you chose. Lizzie and Phil were space lizards. Michelle Obama is really Michael. Macca died in a car crash and was replaced by a body double, who’s been performing as him ever since. The security services did for Diana. Taylor Swift is a Satanist, and Stevie Wonder isn’t blind. John Lennon’s killer was part of a black ops mind control programme.
Right now there’s a whole new show on the road. We’re in the middle of a real mother of a conspiracy theory, which has brought about a state of utter meltdown in the world press, social media and the internet. It is, of course, the ‘something’s happened to Kate’ furore. Naturally it couldn’t be anything as mundane as the fact that the lass has had serious surgery and is taking time out of the public eye to recover. Oh no.
So far we’ve had a proper good pick and mix on offer. She’s far iller than has been made out; she’s got cancer or something. She’s had plastic surgery. She’s pregnant. She and William are estranged after he had an affair and she’s fled the scene (an additional titbit is that he belted her in the process). She’s had a complete nervous breakdown blah de blah. Mercifully, no one has yet claimed that she’s been abducted by aliens; at least, as far as I know.
And there’s my own theory of choice. There’s a medium on the net claiming that spirits have told her that Kate has sunk into an irreversible coma, and body doubles are being used while a clone replacement is being made ready. A fucking clone, would you believe? And there are idiots out there swallowing this stuff.
Oh in one respect all this stuff is hugely entertaining, and it’s free. But on the other hand it’s plain batshit crazy. There are some very strange individuals out there coming up with it, and most of them, I suspect, are spending far too much time in a bedroom in their mom’s house, goggle eyed in front of a computer screen. They could really do with getting out more, if only for their own good.
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Nominated by: Ron Knee