I’ve mentioned before that I like watching conspiracy documentaries. They’re currently a part of my creative process, and…oh hell, I could probably find a few more mentions, but I’m just too lazy right now.

Earlier today, I had a thought about the phrase ‘down the rabbit hole’, and how people seem to use it when talking about conspiracies.

I thought they were incorrect. I was wrong.

I did a little looking around, and found out that rabbits can live in largish groups, in impressively large warrens.

Probably with a lot of different holes.

So, yeah, it’s a perfectly accurate phrase for conspiracy theories.

Holy shit, is it accurate.

Especially if you pretend that the warrens are occasionally connected to other warrens. You can fall into the 9/11 Conspiracy Hole, and come out three months later, half-blind and confused, from a place where Fluoride is a Nazi Eugenics Mind Control plot to keep people from evolving into beings that live in the Universal Cloud Consciousness.

My current travels? Well, there was the UFOs are an Illuminati conspiracy — they’re actually demonic entities, and a part of the Illuminati plot to create atheists, and eventually turn the Christians and the atheists against each other. Once that happens, they’ll force all the survivors of the third world war to convert to Satanism.

I went through all three seasons of Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory, which was a pretty nice sampling of the major conspiracies.

Fluoride? Yeah, there was some of that.

Vaccines as eugenics? That’s where I am right now, and it apparently has something to do with the reptillians, because David Icke is talking.

9/11. JFK. Bilderberg. Sandy Hook is somehow connected to the shooting out here at the Century Aurora 16.

I’ve got a Moon Landing Hoax documentary in the queue.

I’ve seen things about how the food industry and the pharmaceutical industry are colluding to sell antidepressants.

In another documentary, propaganda was blamed for anxiety and depression.

In a third, it was just Big Pharma inventing ADHD and, of all things, bipolar disorder.

In a fourth, pharmaceuticals were blamed for the economic collapse, because antidepressants and anxiolytics create sociopaths and psychopaths.

And, of course, the CIA invented HIV [which doesn’t cause AIDS], and spread it in the Polio vaccine.

It’s like a rabbit warren built based on Cube. Or possibly Cube 2: Hypercube.

At times, I almost understand the ‘internet is dangerous’ bullshit. But I don’t agree with anyone who wants to regulate it, or ban conspiracy theories.

You can’t regulate this shit. You can’t ban it without infringing upon freedom of speech, and anyone who says that such things don’t apply to the internet? They’re scary people who should probably be watched.

Conspiracy theories are…they’re fiction written by insane people. That people take them seriously is an entirely different rabbit hole — one that probably connects with the ‘invented mental illness’ warren, based on the people that live in them.

And there’s something interesting about them. Something I can’t quite pin down, let alone articulate. I think I tried once, but I think I failed miserably.

There’s a pretty big part of me that’s thrilled every time something major happens — 9/11, Sandy Hook [which I didn’t even know about until much later], Boston. Yes, thrilled. Possibly because I’m one of those Big Pharma Produced Sociopaths.

See: I like to watch the conspiracies grow. When I’m there at the beginning, watching that seed of irrationality germinate, it’s entertaining. Will it die, or will it grow, and eventually bloom like a bigger, stinkier Amorphophallus titanum?

Will it catch on, and spread outside the conspiracy circles? Will it pull a Slenderman?

I should explain that. Slenderman, for those of you who’ve never encountered the word, is a creature that occasionally makes children disappear. Or a bunch of other stuff. Originally, it was children.

He started out as a couple of photoshops and a couple of little stories to go with those photoshops, on the SomethingAwful Forum. The idea of him escaped, and grew into…something people think they’ve actually seen.

Tracing the birth and growth of that modern myth was fascinating to me. Tracing conspiracies? Just as fascinating.

Where the hell was I going with this? Where the hell did I start, and where am I now?