Interesting collection of comments from the various sides. What about a meta discussion of why some ideas are orthodox and some are heretical?

To culture, good and bad are a cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while in nature, they are the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience. What's good for the fox, is bad for the chicken.

This is because a society has to function as an organism, on the larger scale, not just an ecosystem. Especially in times of stress or group action. For example, if you are an antelope running with the herd, you can't just stop and scratch your ear.

The consequence will be the group immune response kicking in and you will be banned, or run over.

Though for those of us slightly outside the mainstream, it's more like being a little creature in the forest, where you have to listen for every noise and be able to judge its importance.

Of all the conspiracy theories being listed , the most important seems to be overlooked. The idea bubbling up on economics sites, that debt eventually does matter.

While the countries in the Old World have thousands of years of ups and downs and feuding with their neighbors, America only has a few hundred years of growth, topped off with a few decades of compounding debt to keep the party going.

If you read much of the views and opinions from those older cultures, there is the sense of blood in the water.

That's not a conspiracy theory, but just subliminal sense.

You have to be able to accept there is more than just the box, to be able to think outside it.