Conspiracy Theory

CONSTANTLY WRONG – The difference between “Conspiracies” and “Conspiracy Theories.”

Definitions:
A Conspiracy – A criminal plot by a group of people.
A Conspiracy Theory – A claim of secret crimes by a hidden group, and this claim is driven by a community of amateurs.

All conspiracies produce good hard evidence. They produce leaks. They produce witnesses. Ultimately conspirators turn on each other because of internal conflicts, or as a means to evade prosecution. And that’s when things really go sideways and the whole thing crashes and explodes and sends evidence hurtling everywhere. So much of it that you can make an excellent six-part docu-series about it.

Conspiracy Theories are not part of this reality. They live in the upside down. Everything stays perfectly sealed up, Nobody leaks. Nobody flips. No good evidence surfaces. No victims tell their stories. Nobody decides one day, hey I’d like to be a hero. Which they can do by just dashing off an email to the Washington Post. At best conspiracy theories create a large pile of weak evidence. If a conspiracy theory is real why wouldn’t the much maligned MSN report on it?

Because they protect their tribe mates like they protected Hillary Clinton? Like they protected Harvey Weinstein? Like they protected Jeffrey Epstein? Like they protected Bill Cosby? Like they protected Ellen DeGeneres? Journalists love scandal and crime and whether you’re a democrat or a republican they’ll rip you in half and feast on your guts just the same.

We should all be skeptical of huge dramatic assertions. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. When somebody makes big dramatic claims, you get to kick back and say, “okay bring on the big dramatic evidence.” You don’t have to disprove them.