Think about it. What do you get?
You get TRUST THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND ITS APPOINTED EXPERTS ONLY.
Trust the Man. Trust the system. Trust that you are being told the whole truth by everyone in power, and that no one is lying to you. Trust that no one would abuse the system, and that if they did, they would be caught and prosecuted, because our system ALWAYS works.
Do you think this is a reasonable thing to request, much less demand?
And if you really think about it, every Christian church is engaging in “conspiracy theory”. They believe in an invisible God, and an absolute Hell and absolute Heaven which ALL OF US go to. There is a whole world, an entire order, beyond what we can see, and it is vastly more important than what we CAN see. Is this not a conspiracy theory? Is this not called lunacy by the mainstream “experts” who are willing to speak the truth as they see it?
And you multiple conspiracies with the Pope. First you have to believe all the Christian stuff about heaven and hell and the resurrection of Christ, then that God really did appoint the Pope his vicar, then that he is telling the truth about the men in his immediate circle who have been clearly and without much doubt implicated in horrible sexual crimes against children.
That’s a whole lot of believing.
I think intelligent people, watching even their immediate circle, even the people at work, quickly come to realize that the whole truth is not only not always told, it is rare when it is. Most of the time, somebody is lying about something, withholding information, misleading people, for a variety of reasons.
Conspiracies to conceal truths are not rare: they are continuous. They can be small and they can be enormous.
And psychologically, I think all of us NATURALLY gravitate to the belief there is some deeper order we cannot see. It’s something you have to fight.
And of course the “rationalists” say we MUST fight this tendency. But I would ask: if we lack sufficient information to form a final conclusion, as is nearly always the case, what is the benefit to jettisoning the POSSIBILITY that something really weird, really underhanded, or even really evil is in play? Saying it is possible is not the same as saying it is happening, and intelligent people always formulate as many hypotheses as possible so as to best match the evidence as it emerges.
I think all thinking, feeling people have seen in the attacks on “conspiracy theory” a concerted propagandistic attack on unwanted truths. Obama wanted to make his complicity in the preventable murders of Americans in Benghazi disappear by calling anyone questioning him about it a nut. But the facts have emerged, and with the exception of Hillary Clinton, no one person shares more blame for the death of Ambassador Stephens and others than Barack Hussein Obama, who lied in the beginning, lied in the middle, and is trying to lie through distraction even now.
Ponder a population so docile, so imbecilic, that it trusts its leaders when they promise they will never lie or mislead them.