I can remember decades ago watching an episode of Hill Street Blues where there was a guy that wore a tinfoil hat to stop the aliens reading his brain.
The X-files was a well known series of outrageous ideas about aliens interfering in the world. I remember a road trip in the USA when I tuned in to a radio station that actually believed in some of the stuff on X-files.
Today we had protests in London, where some people complained that the police were protecting paedophiles. In case you don’t know this is an idea that there is a secret cabal that are abducting and smuggling to drink their blood. It tends to be anti-Semitic as well.
We have adopted a PC attitude that says “your are entitled to your views”. In the world of ideas there is no right and wrong. But has this now crept in to the physical world? Have we now got to a point where we can no longer say “that idea is dumb”?
What surprises me is the number of people that are now posting dumb stuff because it trashes the idea of a political party they don’t like. Does the end really justify the means?