You know when it's a good time to spout off about how things "really" work? When you're answering questions for an interviewer, on the radio or in a podcast. Not at Thanksgiving dinner. Nor at any dinner, ever. Leave that stuff for those who want to hear it, those who choose to listen to you. Don't subject your family and what friends you have to the rambling conjectures of conspiracies.
Now, that is not to say that there isn't any merit to such theories. It's just that there is a time and a place for it. Much like the religious fanatic, the conspiracy nut, who's always spouting off about secret cabals and hidden agendas, will turn off more people than they will ever hope to convince.
Plus, you need to have more than thin connections and leaps of logic to win people over. Confirmation bias is a real thing, and swings both ways. What's this "bias" I speak of? It's where we have a belief, and filter everything we see and hear to match it. What doesn't fit, gets rejected. And, it is found in just about everyone. So, the Truther sees their conspiracy as proven, but other people only see them grasping at straws. Which is why it's difficult to have a conversation with anyone from an opposing viewpoint.
So, just don't. Don't talk about it unless asked; flat-out asked. Don't take situations or circumstances as invites to start babbling about what you've discovered. No one wants to hear it.
Don't be a Fucktard.
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