Two quotes by Alan Moore about conspiracy theories which I think are apt:
"The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy
theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting.
The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is
not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12 foot
reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. The truth is more
frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless."
"Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of
conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those
conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns.
If you are on a list targeted by the CIA, you really have nothing
to worry about. If however, you have a name similar to somebody
on a list targeted by the CIA, then you are dead."
