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“Our 11th grade biology teacher was just a cardboard cutout of Bill Nye,” Sam said proudly. “Best teacher I ever had.”
he’d decided he quite liked being mind controlled, and felt at this point that he was so used to it he might even feel let down if he ever stopped being under mind control in the future.
the lowest rung to be individuals the humans call ‘homeless,’ ‘drug addicts,’ and ‘politicians.’
“Let us, as you humans say, sever the excrement,” Eudox said quietly.
“A conspiracy theory is sort of a stubborn refusal to accept facts,” Von Marbles mused. “It is wanting to believe that you are special, and privy to a secret truth that no one else is. It’s the same reason people join mystical secret societies, and cults, and become sociology majors.
The lesson I take from this is that if you believe everything everyone tells you, you are an idiot, like Sam. But at the same time, if you refuse to believe anything everyone else tells you, you are just as big of an idiot.
