Experience Tumblr Like Never Before
For a high school art project I made architecturally sound fairy house. It was big, it was beautiful, and I was very proud of it. Eventually, my mom convinced me to make a Fairy House Kit because so many people liked it, and I sold them for a while at fairs and stuff.
However, I would occasionally have Adults customers come up and ask me, "Do you believe in Fairies." Now, whether Fairies exist or don't exist is something I really don't care about. I made the fairy house because I thought is was cool and beautiful, not because I believed in fairies. Hence, whenever someone asked, "do you believe in Fairies," It would get really.... Awkward. I have a similar reaction to conspiracy theories. I couldn't care less about them, so talking to people who are really invested is really..... Awkward. Now there are plenty of things wrong with conspiracy theories. They have little to no evidence. Most of them revolve around speculative reasoning. And they generally involve some power trying to suppress the "Truth". But in reality, people really just don't care.
Flat Earther: "The Governments don't want you to know the world is flat." Me: "And why would anyone care about that?"