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Daily Inspiration: "If you see a conspiracy behind every tree maybe you need to get out of the forest!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
All of us have lost someone to the maelstrom of the madness, the confusion of the crazy, the innards of the insanity. We've seen otherwise rational people fall prey to delusions, subscribe to conspiracies, and fuel their paranoia through the warm path of the social media misinformation swamp.
I've long been watching all of this with the unease common to most rational, logical, and sane people.
I dare not wade into the debate, knowing that all too quickly, those who have been sucked down into the conspiracy wormhole will rise up in righteous madness.
I know I've lost a few friends along the way, and I always ponder the issue of how otherwise intelligent people can fall into a world of the absolutely irrational. I don't bother trying to debate with them; it seems that they have devoted much time to empower themselves with information from within the conspiracy swap, eager to do nothing more with their lives than to fight within a debate.
I have better things to do with my time.
I just feel sad for them.
As a futurist, I've long had to pay attention to the issue though. After all, while it's easy to predict the future, it's not easy to predict the implications of madness-driven volatility.
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