Quote Originally Posted by DerFürst View Post
Many conspiracies are true, but they usually involve playing complex mind-games with the public to make them draw false conclusions. They usually end up being too intricate and not sensationalistic enough to gain people's attention, but they are the ones people should be focused on most. What's more interesting: a conspiracy about rich bankers using legal loopholes to scam a government's treasury into perpetual debt to them, or a secret government plan to initiate doomsday by opening a wormhole for aliens from another dimension coming to conquer Earth?
DerFürst, thanks for that. I've been puzzling over the abundance of conspiracy theories, mundane and bizarre and everything in between, for a long time. What you wrote there finally made click for me. This makes sense.

Using wild stories to distract and befuddle and confound the public (which is why there are so many conspiracy theories that conflict or collide; more distraction) so while people are looking "over there at that thing" they are NOT looking where they shouldn't be. Misdirection is a trick as old as humanity. The media are experts at it, and so are multinational corporations and various other groups (including, in many cases, governments, or at least, some parts of some governments). Create fear of all kinds, in every sort of flavour, style, and fashion... It's like filling up a room with white noise and random language sounds to mask an actual conversation.