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ORIGINAL: asyouwish72

News Flash: The Moon Lizards who run the world are not real... they are from that terrible 1980s sci-fi series "V".

If there really was an omniscient and omnipotent trilateral commission/freemason/illuminati/"wing-nut conspiracy of your choice" out there, don't you suppose they'd be doing just a little bit better!!??!!

I mean, if they've been at this for 400 years or so, you'd think they'd have long ago set up everything just the way they want it, and everyone who questioned them would have long since been carried off by Gurkha troops in black helicopters in the middle of the night.

To my mind, the thing about conspiracy theories is that they are subconsciously comforting- The idea that the War Department knew about the impending attack on Pearl Harbor but allowed it to happen to serve their nefarious ends is much less frightening than the possibility that all of us, right to the president, were deceived by the Japanese. The same thing is true with 9-11 conspiracies. I suspect that is the case with Illuminati believers as well- all of these mythologies hinge on the idea that somebody at the top really has it all figured out, and bad things happen simply because they allow it.

Reality is somewhat different. The U.S. Government is a lot like Upton Sinclair's meat-packaging industry- it stays in business, but if you look behind the scenes it is a dreadful, lumbering, horrendously disorganized disaster. It only looks good when it's standing next to the U.N. :)