while the examples given are ridiculous and draining,
its difficult to determine where the line in the sand would be that separates the mode of “conspiracy theory” from acceptable analysis aside from their aesthetical differences. i can’t see how this pandemic is not the result of groups conspiring, although that might be too trite to point out?
I’m not accusing anybody here of doing this, but
this situation probably isn’t best understood as a random biblical plague either, its self evident that its occurring in this way to a large extent as a result of specific decisions made by specific groups of people. that doesn’t necessarily entail magical thinking, or a literal belief in transdimensional shadow cabals. surely conspiratorial practices are at play to some degree.
there are specific agricultural production rates, supply chains, financial incentives, that produce the conditions in which something like this can develop. surely the profit margins that would explain why industrial volumes of animals are kept in close quarters, with a lifespan that provides the conditions in which a virus can successfully adapt and mutate and test itself on a number of different organisms in quick succession, are pursued at some expense of the risks involved, by conspiring?
and the general thrust of our government in recent years, as far as you can say there is one, has not been to shore up the nhs in case of an unprecedented overload on its resources. again, it stands to reason that successive groups in government have conspired to some degree to produce the current conditions of the health service.
i mean that all sounds quite thick but certain groups are more responsible than others for this situation. and to a good degree they’ve conspired to pursue certain interests. maybe that sounds too boring, but its also mass industrial conspiracy to the detriment of humanity.