SmknJoe, the same thing pops into my mind from time to time...but it depends on what you consider a conspiracy. Had people known any better, most "conspiracies" would have involved the stock market or governmental entities "arranging" things for their cronies to make money. Stuff that nobody has any idea about until EVERYTHING comes spilling out all at once.
The typical things we call conspiracy theories are nonsense for the very basis Max generally attacks them on...too many people involved with covering it up and too many legitimateexplanations going ignored by the people who want to milk the conspiracy angle.
When you know about a conspiracy, you'll know about everything all at once.
Good examples...Jerry Sandusky and molestations with the Catholic Church, college sports programs paying players, corporations that cook their books, etc, etc.
You generally either know the whole story or nothing at all.
Right. I mean it's kinda why I said "certain groups." Obviously, some of these conspiracists are just too much to take seriously. Even in the face of boatloads of rational explanations, they cling to nonsensical concepts that makes you think they have actually convinced themselves so deeply that there is no turning back.
But, what about JFK? So many years later, and the evidence seems to suggest there was more than one shooter, yet we can only be told we have to wait for a few more decades to hear the real truth. I'm just not so sure that the "ground rules" for a legit conspiracy to be proven true are so clear.
What about aliens and Area 51? This was what, some 40 years ago or whatever now and the govt story still stands as a weather balloon? Come on now. Most of us have seen the shows on Discovery and what not. There's plenty more to it than what we have been told.
I don't believe in the oodles of 9/11 theories. Garbage. Tiresome.
But, I do believe the govt used our soldiers as test dummies for mind altering drugs in order to create some sort of killing machine. But, it's easy hide when the test subjects can be explained away by diagnosis such as PTWD/PTWS.
And, one that I've taken plenty of heat over, is our current govts intentions. There is a storm brewing there. There are bizarre things happening. But, there are so many signs pointing to ill intentions. The lack of trust there builds and we end up seeing some pretty wild accusations/theories that tend to distract us from some concepts that have a little more grip, imo.
