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Two things can be true at the same time. You don’t have to be one of those people who goes the other extreme and says, “I don’t believe in conspiracies. You’re right. I believe everything the government tells me.” Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you’re not being followed; and just because JFK wasn’t a conspiracy doesn’t mean people think conspiracies don’t happen. “Conspiracy” in the popular sense of the word carries a lot of baggage and has become something of a tarnish word; in the same way “skeptic” has to those outside of the scientific community (which is akin to calling someone a “naysayer”).
Part of the problem your average person has is coming to grips with the fact that absurd and impossible seeming things, happen literally every single day. In a country of approximately 300 million people, if you have an event that’s a million to one, you’re statistically guaranteed to have 300 of those events at any given moment. High profile people get shot every single day. So what if one of them happens to be the US president? There’s been documentaries that claim the government killed 2Pac. (It was just Compton related gang activity.) And as far as secrecy goes, there are a lot of secrets in the world. There are secrets in my own life that I’ll keep and go to the grave with. Just remember the US couldn’t even keep the nuclear bomb a secret; and it got leaked to the Soviet Union anyway. I believe in “conspiracies” much the same way anyone else does. Conspiracy to commit murder. Two rich people conspiring to fuck over their workers. Conspiracies that a lizard king secretly rules in the White House? Call me skeptical. Very skeptical.
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