Was in a Trader Joe’s just now and heard an employee ranting to his coworkers about bill gates, mosquitos with genetic mutations, vaccines etc…

His coworkers were listening intently.

Then I had this moment of clarity like who does this serve? Is it serving the Trader Joe’s employees? Is it bettering their lives to be tapped into this firehose of information (true, false or otherwise).

How can it be? They’re working in a Trader Joe’s for $20 an hour.

Then as I walked to the checkout counter I wondered to myself is this the new opiate of the masses?

Approved conspiracies manufactured for wide public consumption while the real ones are swept out of view.

Giving the public the illusion that they have secret esoteric knowledge of major events that are set to transpire imminently… yet somehow never do.

America’s past time used to be baseball and now it’s conspiracy theories. That has to be by design right? Right?!

Anyway then I remembered I forgot to get ground beef so I went back to grab it.

$5.49 a lb, pretty good deal.