Where on the spectrum of "nothing I have been told is real" do you fall?
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1812 was a rewrite of history? I thought the war of 1812 was because Jefferson let the first central bank charter expire and the City of London lost the power to print currency in the colonies.
Oh no, the "war" story was a cover for the "cataclysmic event" that wiped out 80% of the population and the British empire used secret ancient technology where they extracted eggs from young women and fertilized them in petri dishes and grew them in bottles just like Brave New World. With the children's growth accelerated, this prevented them from having any memory of where they came from then these children were all spread across the country in orphanages and were being sold in newspapers. not because they were orphaned by their parents, but they were grown to repopulate the northwestern hemisphere with quality genetic stock to rebuild after the catachlism.
At least that's the gist of it. I heard this third hand, its one of many theories to explain something about anachronistic architecture and other things.
Never heard that... I do know that 1816 was a crazy year, The Year Without a Summer.
I'm in the "at least the first moon landing was faked and you can't change my mind" camp ๐ค๐
This demonstrates a problem that can often happen: people begin to wake up and realize "the government doesn't care about me" and "inflation is theft" and "government schools are about indoctrination and conformity" all of which are true. But then they go to the extreme of saying "anything the government says is a lie, therefore any and every 'conspiracy theory' is true." So they start believing stupid stuff like "the earth is flat" or "we never landed on the moon" and so on.
The goal should never be to swap out one set of unexamined beliefs for another. Instead, we should *think critically* and never accept any theory unquestioned just because it comes from our favorite source.
Inflation is neither "good" nor "necessary", regardless of the fact the government says otherwise. But if the government says the sky is blue, I'm not just going to reflexively say "no it's brown!"
Truth.
"The moon landing was faked."
Let's leave aside that you're assuming much more government competence than warranted (both in pulling this off originally and in keeping it secret for 50+ years).
The best argument against this comes from the excellent xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1074/