Lee Kuhnle

And when you were talking, I swear this was a quote that somebody had said, but I looked it up and I couldn't find it.

So maybe it's me.

Maybe this is my quote, which is, myth is history that has forgotten its origins.

And I think this is like really true of conspiracies as well, is that not all conspiracies, like there's many paths up the mountain.

And I don't want to suggest that all conspiracy theories work like

the way we're describing these.

Of course, many of them are just straight up real, right?

Like Watergate really happened or whatever.

So there's all that.

But I think in terms of when we think of something like the simulation or the lost continent of Atlantis, some of what's going on is we've just lost the origin of it, or at least the origin is not known in popular culture.

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Exactly.

And I remember at that time, because of course, I teach this stuff as well.

And one of the things I wanted to do with my students was to generate a fake conspiracy in class for upcoming students.

And it was going to be something along the lines of, you know, like they do teacher reports.

So you can find like students have written reports about what they think about my classes.

I was going to ask them to start inserting into their reports that this was an entry vehicle into the Illuminati.

Like, if you took this course, then at the end of it, you would be given the secret codes to get into the Illuminati.

Now, I thought this would be a great experiment in which to show students how this kind of stuff evolves.