"Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence." Charles Krauthammer

 There are 10 types of people in the world: those that understand binary and those that don’t.  There are 2 types of people in the world: those that believe conspiracy theories and those that don’t.  The polarization between believing and not believing in conspiracies probably isn’t a binary either-or but it is pretty stark in my experience.  Seems as if someone who believes in one conspiracy is more likely to believe in another.  I wonder why?  Is it a need to explain all of the evil and bad luck in the world?  “Surely the world can’t be this way.  A secret cabal did it!”   “I would’ve been a success except for the very powerful group that was against me.”

In one breath, a person can complain about the mindless bureaucratic buffoons running the government and in the next speak of the intricate conspiracy of thousands of those same people involved in a cover up – documents altered, records deleted, lies generated, secrets kept.

It is very difficult for two people to keep a confidentiality.  I dare say it is impossible for even ten.  Someone always wants the honor of being the one to spill the beans.  Go down in history as the one who revealed the truth. 

If a group of executives of a large corporation have a meeting and plan a product launch.  Is it a conspiracy if they agree to keep that plan a secret?  Or is it just good business sense?  Likewise if some product of theirs gets some bad publicity and they have a meeting to plan on how to deal with the press to minimize the harm done to their company, their stockholders and their customers are they fulfilling their fiduciary obligation or participating in a conspiracy?

A problem I have with conspiracies is that they can never be disproved.  If data is proffered to refute the conspiracy, the person offering the evidence is automatically part of the conspiracy.  Conspiracies just grow bigger and bigger.

I don’t in general believe in conspiracies, but I’m on the track of the group (established writers and Internet insiders) that is preventing this blog from having the anticipated and deserved 2000 followers.  I’m getting close.

©2014 Lester C. Welch