Conspiracy

Technically a Conspiracy is a plan made by a group of individuals to achieve some goal in secret, more likely than not at least somewhat nefarious in nature. For our purposes, it also refers to a set of fiction and modern mythology based around various alleged conspiracies and fiction which is derived there-of. From Area 51 and the Philidephia Experiment to Nazi Moon bases and reptilians from the hollow earth.

Get your post it boards, string, trench coats and tin foil hats. We got codes to crack and mysteries to expose.

The Mindset of Conspiracy Theorists

Conspiracy Theorists are well known for coming up with totally batshit ideas, taking a few scanty points of data ranging from symbols on dollar bills to the price of cheese to Backstreet Boys lyrics and linking them together to get people to believe that a 300 English Gentleman's Club is plotting to retake the 13 colonies for the british empire to facilitate the ambitions of the Squid People of Tau-Ceti or something else equally absurd. Sometimes you get people which end up falling down the rabbit hole into a dream world of aliens and shadowy cabals in which anyone who tries to talk them out of it.

Most obviously, Conspiracy Theorists are often paranoid and schizophrenic. There's also an element of wonder to it; the same thing that made people imagine fairies living in the forest in the middle ages. If aliens actually were monitoring people, that would be kind of cool. But a big factor about it is simplification. We live in a world with a vast web of people, groups, organizations and interests constantly trying to make their way and achieve their goals around various human and non-human factors, often against each other. A mess of monkeys fumbling for meaning and working at cross purposes is inevitably a mess and often highly inefficient, confusing, frustrating and a hazard to those caught up in it. To some people, the notion that the current state of the world can be deciphered and in the end the mess that the world is in can be traced to a single group with an written agenda.

This is not to say that there are not people in power which try to pull shady shit. It does happen, but (among other things) they have a distinct diseconomy of scale. The larger the conspiracy the more points of failure and the greater the risk of exposure. Your typical conspiracy is not a secret society with a thousand year plan to dominate the earth, but more to the effect of some corporate types and their 'fixers' or some government agency doing something to make off with money, eliminate a rival or to achieve some other specific immediate goal.

Media with a Conspiracy Elements in it

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