The Truth: Science Fiction

We were all laughing last summer when the YouTube series of videos ("The Truth") started. Funny stuff, right? Government conspiracies, fluoride as a calming agent in the tap water, and so on. At first, we *could* laugh at it. Then the site went viral, videos proliferated on YouTube, the Daily Show started showing a new one every day, and suddenly we found that we had to go, we had to watch, we had to believe. We could laugh at the funny bits, but then we'd go home and buy only bottled water or whatever. You started seeing people wearing tin-foil hats on the street. It was like an earworm song that you just couldn't get out of your head until you accepted it as part of reality. By the time that the conditioning psychologists analyzed the videos and found all the high-level headhacks imbedded in them, it was too late. We were all conditioned to disbelieve them, and we were *heavily* conditioned to watch the newest videos, which were being aired on the news, on all channels, by that time.


Inspiration: http://boingboing.net/2012/05/08/hasan-minhaj-nails-the-ashton.html
Story Potential: High?
Notes: This isn't pulling me in super-much, but I guess the potential for ridiculousness makes it high potential.