It is to laugh!
Jan. 11th, 2007 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuSo I've had the boob tube on most of the afternoon. The History Channel. They've run a bunch of specials, like one about how various kinds of junk (autos, garbage, electronics, aircraft) are handled and recycled. It was kind of interesting. Another one about the history of cocaine (it's discovery and history, mostly). That sort of thing.
Then I went out to deliver the car to my lovely and talented wife after work so she could drive herself to her Calculus class. I took the bus home again and eventually turned on the television again. The History Channel is now running an hour-long show about conspiracy theorists and their beliefs about all the secret symbols on the U.S. Dollar bill, and their real significance, and about the Freemasons and their secret cabal of 33rd degree Masons who are the real movers and shakers in the world.
Not exactly what I was expecting. Now in the second half of the hour they're dealing with the debunkers. It's vaguely related to history, I suppose, but still....not the sort of thing I was expecting to see.
Color me naive, but it strikes me that if I were going to start (or join) a secret society determined to rule the world, I would not advertise our existence or plans in even the most obscure fashion. Putting our "secret" symbols on something as ubiquitous as the U.S. dollar strikes me as comical.
Then I went out to deliver the car to my lovely and talented wife after work so she could drive herself to her Calculus class. I took the bus home again and eventually turned on the television again. The History Channel is now running an hour-long show about conspiracy theorists and their beliefs about all the secret symbols on the U.S. Dollar bill, and their real significance, and about the Freemasons and their secret cabal of 33rd degree Masons who are the real movers and shakers in the world.
Not exactly what I was expecting. Now in the second half of the hour they're dealing with the debunkers. It's vaguely related to history, I suppose, but still....not the sort of thing I was expecting to see.
Color me naive, but it strikes me that if I were going to start (or join) a secret society determined to rule the world, I would not advertise our existence or plans in even the most obscure fashion. Putting our "secret" symbols on something as ubiquitous as the U.S. dollar strikes me as comical.