It seems that no matter what sphere we are considering, it is impossible for people to accept that there may be no more surprising of esoteric reason for a strange or sinister event than coincidence or happenstance. There are even people who deny the possibility of coincidence at all. Whether we are looking at something as innocuous as the drop rates of bonuses in a video game, or the destruction of life and property in a natural disaster, or even large scale conflict there are those who see the evil manipulation of circumstances to create these events. It seems to me that there is often little evidence for a conspiracy, but this doesn't seem to make much of a difference. There also seems to be little evidence that the supposed controlling groups, be they NWO groups, Bilderbergers, Masons, Templars, Illuminati or hybrid alien lizards actually exist but again that makes little difference.
What is interesting is that impossibility of these things not being conspiracies, and the implications that that leads to. I think it is related to the previous post on blame culture, in that if we don't have a conspiracy theory, we potentially have no-one to blame, which implies that we are at the mercy of random events, which in turn leads inevitably to a sense of fear and impending doom simply because it removes our ability to control our own lives. It seems to make little difference that very few of us actually have any real measure of control over our lives beyond very basic day to day decisions, but there you go.
It seems to be a part of what makes us happy and able to cope, this idea that someone is in control of everything, that the possibility of effecting change exists, that there is someone to complain to and we are not just at the mercy of random chance. I wonder if it relates to our predisposition for faith based religion, and even if conspiracy theory is a natural consequence of the decline in religion in the Western World. It is certainly something that bears thinking about for me.....
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