Writing Prompts

"They never landed on the moon when they said they did."

"Oh really? Because you would know right? Cause you're from what..."

"The future"

"The future. Sounds great. Did you take your pills this morning?"

"Check the news. Morgobzan declared war on Trifelt."

"What war?"

"Check. the. news."

"Damn. you saw it before."

"When was it declared?"

"Ok, alright! So you came from the times that will be, just so you could inform me that the moon landing was fake?"

"Yes. not just you, by the way. Some hundreds in key positions of fate."

"Key positions of fate?"

"You will happen to meet the most of the most influential people"

"Not myself? ..ourselves?"

"You are also influential, that's how you meet them in the first place"

"That's a good answer. But the question remains: why?"

"The cognitive dissonance created during the moon landing pretense created a sub-altern culture that pitted most of the country in conflict with the elite ingroup"

"So, all those conspiracy theories?"

"Started from a real one, then became devolved over time"

"How would you know we didn't actually visit the moon?"

"I was there, when mankind took a leap back when men a foot away became foreign. A society is the most humane when it acknowledges what makes us human. Curiosity and suspicion are not distant relatives, are they?"

"It is still hard to believe you, though."

"They faked it by sending an orbiter and making it leave artificial remnants of a supposed landing"

"I don't know where you are pulling it from, but you sound both extremely convincing and extremely dumb at the same time"

"It is the thought that counts. when your brethren question something, please listen. This I ask of you"

"Ok alright. I am still human though, I can only be what I am made to be"

"That has been enough for humanity for eons. I am sure it will be enough for the coming future"