Probably the greatest thing the CIA ever did; make “conspiracy” synonymous with “bullshit that didn’t happen”.
After WWII when amateur radios became popular sharing information also grew. Even if the government was now having a harder time getting away with bullshit, all they needed to do was invent 9 bullshit stories for every 1 correct one out there and then everyone would conclude (rightly) that “vast majority are false”. And then when they do encounter a real one, again, they rightly think “most are bullshit” but that implies “so this one is probably as well”, for all of them, always.
“Conspiracy” means nothing more than something illegal being purposefully orchestrated by two or more people.
Probably the greatest thing the CIA ever did; make “conspiracy” synonymous with “bullshit that didn’t happen”.
After WWII when amateur radios became popular sharing information also grew. Even if the government was now having a harder time getting away with bullshit, all they needed to do was invent 9 bullshit stories for every 1 correct one out there and then everyone would conclude (rightly) that “vast majority are false”. And then when they do encounter a real one, again, they rightly think “most are bullshit” but that implies “so this one is probably as well”, for all of them, always.
“Conspiracy” means nothing more than something illegal being purposefully orchestrated by two or more people.
Also if you entertain the possibility that one conspiracy theory is true, that means you believe in everything, from flat earth to hollow moon.
What, like getting ridiculed as a “tinfoil theorist” or something after linking something like this?
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/war-for-oil-conspiracy-theories-may-be-right
(edu domains are actual schools and UNU is UN University so this isn’t exactly some crackpot source)