The mother of all conspiracies
Today we are convinced of all the things that have been in the newspaper at least once and were not published on or around 1 April like the Voltswagen brand. But how was it in the past ... let's say 30 or 50 years ago? The last event that triggered worldwide media interest was 11 September 2001, almost 20 years ago. The media landscape has only changed for the better since then: no unfiltered information or unconfirmed allegations that would simply be spread.
And if we think back to the 1960s, we assume that the stories based on the Kennedy assassination or the moon landing had already spread via the internet and smartphones. But this is not the case at all. Rather, the media-promoted conspiracy is an invention of this millennium.
When the lunar module Aquarius allegedly landed in the Sea of Tranquillity in July 1969, there was no one in front of his picture receiver who would have doubted the poor footage. And that is just as well. The questioning of claims should only take place years later and be reserved for journalists, who more than any other professional group know the danger of mental manipulation and always know how to prevent it by clever dissemination. In German-speaking countries it is called 'Bild', in the UK 'Sun' and the French call it 'L'Express'.
In view of this clear situation regarding information and credibility of the press, it is almost surprising that there are no new findings about the way of life of the dinosaurs. This can only be due to the fact that excavations do not reveal everything after all. After all, we know from the historical documents of the starship Voyager, episode 'distant origin', that the Voth escaped the all-destroying volcanic eruption/meteorite impact by leaving for the Delta Quadrant. Or does anyone believe that anything will remain of our launch pads millions of years from now? So there is no evidence that it is not so.
Similarly, there is no evidence that the earth is not a disc. After all, for centuries it has been depicted in maps as flat as the paper on which it is drawn and printed. Anyone can climb a mountain of their choice and will find that they are at the centre of the universe and that the earth ends evenly around the horizon.
The clearest proof that the earth is flat as in the Truman show is the fact that, strangely enough, no land reaches to the end of the world, there is sea everywhere, and in 1959 the Antartica Treaty stipulated that no one can overcome the hundreds of metres high ice barrier built as a ring around the earth's disc - that's why it was made so cold there and why the rest of the world is getting warmer and warmer (that's why no one is doing anything about it, because all governments know why that is;CO2 and ozone don't exist). It's like a refrigerator that you leave open - the world can be explained so easily and plausibly.
It's just as simple with the night-time curfew: because no one can explain the reason or know what exactly applies when, they simply switch off the street lighting as soon as they are no longer allowed to go out - because if no one is outside, they don't need any light. And the other way round, this way he knows that he is not allowed to be on a street that is empty at night, instead of having to check online whether the curfew applies to the square metre he is currently standing on, as was the case with the state patchwork up to now.
And the real reason is, of course, to save energy. Because the Sunday driving ban in the 70s was just as unsuccessful as the summer time that was subsequently introduced, which will certainly be overturned next year when the 'emergency brake' finally takes effect.
In this way, the maintenance and operation of public lanterns is saved without expensive and time-consuming clock changes, studies on their effectiveness or other nonsense. This could have been thought of earlier, it just needed new laws, an end to voluntarism and explanations. That way, the world becomes simpler and easier to understand - and with it baked into a law, there is no reason for doubts that could fuel conspiracies, because saving energy is what we all want - for the preservation of our flat earth.