West Port Experiment

The following was an excellent article by Michael Foster on a wise and very pastoral approach to conspiracy theories and conspiratorialism. Shrewd. Especially appreciate the “80/20” guideline.

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From the time I was a kid, my mind ran toward the strange and the shadowy corners of the world. I ate up Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World and Leonard Nimoy’s In Search Of. Later it was Unsolved Mysteries and Sightings. But it wasn’t just TV. Back when the library was the closest thing we had to the internet, I practically lived in it. I checked out any oddball book I could find. By twelve I had already plowed through Erich von Däniken, and a year later I grabbed Graham Hancock’s first book. Ancient aliens, lost civilizations, Bigfoot, alternate histories, you name it, I read it. Probably more than anyone else I knew.

By high school, I loved batting around theories about JFK, the moon landing, and Roswell. Stuff people talk about casually today in a post–Joe Rogan world, but back then you had to go hunting for it.

Read the rest here.