The Gobbomom Conspiracy Thread

[Zeno]

A few general comments,

1. Conspiracy theories are in some sense a type of folklore (as an interesting aside urban legends are classified as a subset of folklore by pedantic academics).

2. Conspiracy theories also tend to be self-perpetuating and take on ever more elaborate explanations as time goes on, especially in response to criticism. They evolve, just like religions evolve, and form a group theology. An interesting psychology is at work here and reveals something fundamental about the human species.

3. Howard Treesong is a space alien that began life incubating in a buried cocoon on the moon Titan. His starting this conspiracy theory thread is just a pretension to mask this unseemly fact from the rest of the 2+2 community. He also has plans to take over 2+2, then the poker world and then, eventually, the entire planet. Beware.

4. I am a conspiracy theory, a metaphysical statement that reaches the apex of profundity. And I am much more insidious than the space alien mentioned in 3 above.

Le Misanthrope