Only Red Herrings

This is from 1968? And I'm expected to believe that?   July 20th, 1969. A truly astronomical feat of humankind. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people on the moon, as millions of folks watched, absolutely enraptured, from their TVs sets here on good ol' Earth.  And, like most historic monuments in our scattered timeline of existence, popped up the omnipresent scatterbrains - the conspiracy theorists. Because, well, why shouldn't they? There's always an xkcd for that As I was doom scrolling through the Wikipedia article concerning itself with this delightful topic, one thing stuck out to me - a name .  There was one singular  name on the entire blasted index box.  The name was Stanley Kubrick.  It was fuzzily familiar, and a few quick clicks revealed why. The poor fellow had had the misfortune of directing a "cinematic masterpiece", a true trailblazer who walked so every other space movie could run - Stanley Kubrick was the director of 2001: ...

  Have you ever had the honour of looking at a fungal species and casually going, "Oh, look at the very uncanny, absolutely indubitable, resemblance this innocent piece of a (perhaps dead) saprophytic organism has to one of the world's most hotly debated socio-political systems"? No? Well, now you will. What is Marxism? In an alternate timeline, the world is run by socks. There are two ways in which this can work out. A problem that could even challenge Sock-rates Plan A Firstly, some people start with a lot of socks, and they can buy and sell socks freely. The more socks they have, the more power and influence they hold. This leads to a sock hierarchy, where some people have sock abundance, while others struggle to get even a single pair.  The sock market is competitive, and folks are driven by the desire to accumulate as many socks as possible.  What this also means is the market-driven sock society promotes individualism, choice, and the pursuit of the comfie...