Well, they would, wouldn’t they?
Ponders the no-win situation of the Establishment when it comes to conspiracy theories
the theorists to find. And lo and behold – there’s a cornucopia of theories out there, any proof of which will perforce be at best sketchy (because it’s a cover-up), and at worst nonexistent (because it’s a very good cover-up).
And conspiracies are addictive. Like the late Erik Beckjord and his Bigfoot photos, once a theorist has spotted one conspiracy, they soon find another. And another. And yet more, until they start to overlap; at which point you get to the next level of conspiracy theories.
This mezzanine level is where things have clearly transcended the machinations of domestic governments and have moved onto the puppet-masters that control them: the Illuminati, (aka “the Establishment”, again.) They might be Masons, Jews, Templars, Opus Dei, little anally-fixated grey bastards from Zeta Reticuli, the G8 leaders, Bilderbergers, the Carlisle group… well, the list is endless. Except it isn’t, because they are all part of the Illuminati/Establishment. So, when a conspiracy theory appears to be on the ropes, if an individual government somehow manages to furnish reasonable proof of its non-involvement in whatever dodgy dealing, that’s when theorists play the Illuminati card. Because, in such a case, the individual government needn’t be party to it at all – they were as duped as we were. And so on…
Perhaps uniquely among fortean topics of interest, the less tangible evidence of conspiracies there is, the more advocates of conspiracy theories become convinced of their existence. One day, the conspiracy of silence will attain its own Nirvana: its own total absence will confirm its own omnipresent existence. QED, the conspiracy theorists will say, and hard cheese to the sheeple – that’s you and me, folks. Pass the tinfoil.
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