I am not crazy... I am not a nut job... I don't wear tinfoil hats... QUIT Calling me names...

Actually, I am fine with being considered a crazy nut job wearing a tinfoil hat. Why? Simply because I can see those labels for what they are. They are appeals to emotion fallacies, and appeals to popularity. Instinctively we have a bit of that herd behavior. That need to fit in. We want to be normal.

Lemmings like being normal too as they chase each other right off the cliff.

The concept of normal is often used to mentally cage us. We don't want to be perceived as different. Why? Well from an early age difference is attacked. Whether it be skin color, or the fact you're the only girl or boy, or perhaps you are shorter, fatter, or wear glasses. It doesn't really matter. There seems to be some level of innate bigotry in us. I suspect it stems from early survival traits. Cast out the ones who may not survive. Though that doesn't always work out so well. So, psychologically speaking "normal" is us focusing on instinctual animal nature.

We can transcend that. Yet, it requires effort on our part. Most people seem to prefer taking the easy path. Do they put forth the effort, or do they go with the flow?

Transcending this behavior actually also puts you squarely in the "not normal", or "weird" category too. So simply by trying to escape the cycle you are already putting yourself at risk of animalistic attacks from the herd. You are becoming "crazy" according to them. Though in reality you may be becoming more sane than you've ever been before.

So what does calling someone crazy, nut job, conspiracy theorist, or teasing them about wearing a tinfoil hat really do?

Well that is also the Appeal To The Stone. Let's imply something is absurd without offering any proof to why it was absurd.

So why was it absurd? It challenged the status quo. It challenged our comfort zone. It tried to poke holes in our safe space. Perhaps it questioned some authority figure that for some reason we view as an infallible omniscient genius.

Yet it misses the point. Asking questions does not indicate you know the answers. It simply indicates you are willing to ask questions and learn. You are willing to ask questions and not stay in the pre-designated mental safe spaces that are deemed as "acceptable". You are willing to say to the other Lemmings "Gee, that cliff is getting awefully close, should we change direction?"

There is some evidence that this shaming, and attacking people by labeling them is by design. Our increasing use of it has become a very powerful tool in propaganda for getting us to accept narratives whether they make sense or not simply by where the narrative comes from and whether they make us afraid to not be "normal" by shaming us with labels.

So to those of you that feel the need to defend yourself by saying "I am not a conspiracy theorist", or "not to sound like I am wearing a tinfoil hat". STOP. Conspiracies happen. Theory in that context is an idea, a consideration, and is not a statement of fact. In reality often the official narrative itself is technically a conspiracy theory. Asking questions should never be a crime. While telling people they cannot ask questions about certain things actually IS A CRIME. It is censorship. So we need to stop letting them turn the rest of us into mercenaries who will enforce restriction of thought.

We need to say one of my favorite sayings lately. "F&ck Safe Spaces!!" Reality doesn't change because of imaginary boundaries.