I need to say something about this.

Earlier this year two almost-teenage girls were charged with luring another girl into a wooded area and trying to kill her to please a character in an internet meme known as Slender Man who they thought was real. Here is a link to one of many articles about it.

http://bringmethenews.com/2014/06/04/who-is-slender-man/

People have been publicly contemplating why this could have happened. I'm not in the least bit surprised. We adults need to look at ourselves. Look at the ideas, tales, and conspiracy theories we've allowed to propagate in our supposedly grown-up world. We've filled the airwaves, cable TV and the internet with truthers, birthers, climate change deniers, young-earthers, chemtraiers, and anti-vaxers. It seems the entire republic has lost it's ability to differentiate farie tale and psudo-science from reality. And, now we wonder why two 12 year-olds thought a character in a ghost story was real? Is it really that big a leap?