thetygre:

I was watching Room 237, which is a documentary about peoples’ different interpretations of The Shining, and one guy was talking about how it was all a metaphor for Stanley Kubrick filming the moon landing. And the thing that gets me is that he wasn’t a gung-ho moon landing denialist; he believes that we landed on the moon. Just that we couldn’t get any film footage. And that’s so fascinating to me; restrained conspiracy theories.

“The moon landing was fake! Oh, we landed on the moon, but it was so boring we had to fake it to make it look interesting.”

“There are spaceships in Area 51! We couldn’t get them to fly. By the time we worked out the bugs, they were made obsolete by stealth bombers.”

“There’s gender-changing hormones in our drinking water! But it’s balanced out by the chemicals in GMOs. I wouldn’t worry.”