Conspiracy is a word that is designed to shut down your mind.
Did the US government do 9-11? Probably not. Did they use all the same propaganda techniques the Soviet Union did, refined by decades of secret programs like MKULTRA (stuff not available to academics, but used by the government), to manipulate the fear generated by it so they could steal from poor people all over the world to make themselves richer and more powerful? Sure. Of course. Obviously.
People feel afraid of conspiracies because they feel powerless and unable to deal with their world. The people who understand how stupid everyone actually is (even you, even me) use conspiracy taboos to conceal conspiracies. At every point in human history there were many conspiracies functioning. So it's logical to assume there are at least more than 0 conspiracies that are pretty out their.
Here is an important principle: The bigger the lie, the more people will swallow it and not question it. Another important fact is that democracy among humans is as impossible as democracy among sheep. Any herd of sheep could be made to bleet a certain way in response to the right stimulus. Humans are just as susceptible to this as cows or sheep. What we call democracy is a bunch of butchers and a few shepherds using science that exists outside the academy to try and manipulate the sheep to bleet their way into the slaughterhouse or overthrow the butchers, respectively.
Conspiracy is the reaction some members of human herds have to groggily and briefly waking up to how programmed their reality is.
I can think of at least 3 huge conspiracies that are actively going on in the world, that involve elements like information warfare, application of unconscious psychology to mass media to manipulate democracy, outright murder, manipulation of secret science, etc. Of course these are conspiracies, of course I would sound crazy if I said them, that's the reason you were programmed to react to all conspiracies as if they were as crazy as 98 % of them are.
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