The Grand Conspiracy

Yeah, pretty much. 

Reshared post from +Yonatan Zunger

In re: http://xkcd.com/1274/

There is a basic problem with the belief that a secret conspiracy runs the US government. It boils down to this: for the past few decades, the entire structure of the American society and economy has been moving towards a situation in which only the most powerful have access to core services, ranging from housing to medicine to police protection, and that everyone else is essentially dependent upon the goodwill of their benefactors to maintain their access to such things. This creates a profound social stratification which is tremendously to the advantage of those few people who end up on top of it, and tremendously to the disadvantage of everyone else, and to the existence of a civil society and democracy as a whole.

So you have two options. Either this isn’t the actual objective of the secret conspiracy, in which case the government is apparently being run by a conspiracy of total idiots who have nevertheless managed to keep an iron grip on the reins of power. Or this is their actual objective, in which case the conspiracy isn’t a secret. 

(Having ties to several of the below-mentioned conspiracies — I am, apparently, even a member of the “Google+ Jewish Mafia,” although I’m still waiting for my membership card — all I have to say to my fellow conspirators is: Wait, you thought we were doing this? I thought you guys were controlling the government. Who the fuck is driving this thing, anyway?)