Seattle: land of conspiracy theories
Has anyone else ever noticed that it's nearly impossible to have a conversation here that even vaguely hints at topics like politics, the economy, the environment, etc, without someone launching into a tinfoil hat batshit crazy conspiracy theory rant?
Here are a couple of good ones I have heard recently:
- A guy at work was trying to convince people that Alan Greenspan was a real-life Francisco D'Anconia -- part of some diabolical plot to intentionally destroy the world economy.
- The one friend I have who is actually from here told me that just before Obama was elected, his mother was going around saying that Bush was going to use bird flu as an excuse to declare martial law and instill himself in office for a third term. The thing that really struck me as bizarre was how he said it with a completely straight face, like there was nothing unusual about this statement.