THE GREATEST CONSPIRACY THEORY OF ALL TIME... YET IT ISN’T REALLY A CONSPIRACY AT ALL

I am not a believer in conspiracies... at least not on a global scale.

I do see that many apparently intelligent people are and I worry that they are being distracted from issues that are bad enough in and of themselves without adding others that appear to me to be the result of sloppy thinking and quite unaccountable mania.

I have always favored the organic development of issues, crises, behaviors and any number of events that result in some form of harm, disaster or catastrophe.

I do not believe in Bond villains or even in groups of Bond-villain type individuals.

It goes without saying that there are plenty of misguided people who get things wrong and there are others who do wrong quite willfully and justify it. There are certainly sociopaths and psychopaths aplenty (according to the estimate I have seen they compose around 1% of the human population). Together these groups cause a very high percentage of the destructive stuff that foes on in our world, of this I have no doubt. Especially the latter group of psychos who have no conscience, no morality, no respect for honesty and no allegiances to any religion or any group for that matter, except when it’s expedient. They are solely self-interested loners.

If you are looking for evil conspirators you can count the psychos out of the equation as they will not truly work together on anything. Look at Trump is you want an example psycho. They are black holes seeking only incoming goodies of whatever it is they crave, wealth, power, praise, women... you name it.

That leaves fallible humans. Plus those whose integrity has been long compromised.

Common criminals can be counted in this latter group, along with the bulk of politicians, so-called journalists, national security analysts and public relations managers. This category continues the vast majority of those who have climbed a greasy pole to attain some level of power.

Such people see exactly where their best chances lie and by instinct graduate to that place without even a single thought about right, wrong or otherwise. they just go for it. Yes, it’s completely cynical but they would laugh in your face if you tried to make them feel ashamed about that. To them that’s just the way it is. They would tell you to go right ahead and be a goody two-shoes, be honest, be open and refuse everything that makes your conscience blush. More fool you they’d say. They see the main chance... and go for it.

In recent times that main chance has been Russia-bashing.

As Glenn Greenwald has recently pointed out, each and every so-called journalist or observer that added some element of Russia-bashing to their output, even when it was totally disproven, went on to higher and better things. You simply cannot lose by finding Russia behind almost anything and everything with negative consequences that you can think of. It is a totally winning bet each and every time.

Follow the money works here as it does in most cases.

Of course that’s not to say this whole enterprise doesn’t get a little help from a plethora of western intelligence agencies and in particular the CIA, it certainly does!

This is what has occurred as I see it, and if it is a conspiracy as I infer by my title above, then it is a conspiracy to make money... and one that doesn’t need any meetings behind closed doors by people wearing black hoods or masks. The agenda is right out in the open... or, if you are a little slow on the uptake, it just needs a short visit to the editor’s office or a chat with any other journo over at the water cooler.

It’s the greatest conspiracy theory of all time... yet it isn’t really a conspiracy at all.