I spend quite a bit of time on what you would call the "Crazynets," a dungeon-type section of the internet populated by conspiracy theories, shaky-UFO videos and enough animated GIFS to rival a 14-year-old girl's myspace page. The Crazynets have always been there, a sub-level of the mainstream web get Google hits popping up far beyond the third "O" of the 'Gooooooogle' search results. They are loud. They are mad. And they're largely... ignored.
The reason the Crazynets appeal to me is the massive population of people who not only have some of the most insane stories you have ever heard, but also expect to be believed. As if the claims originating partially from them and partially from the tenth planet in the solar system HAVE to be geniune.
If we're all so sane, why aren't these people publicly ridiculed? Lambasted as frauds and fakes and phonies as opposed to being forgotten and largely irrelevant? They aren't exactly a small population -- so what if they live in the center of the Mojave desert, off the grid, with satellite phones? They're people too.
