Don’t see this as a Pakistan-specific problem. Driven by the law of large numbers and regression to the mean, the intelligence of an average member of society i

Don’t see this as a Pakistan-specific problem. Driven by the law of large numbers and regression to the mean, the intelligence of an average member of society is expected to be roughly constant across all countries i.e. the average person in Pakistan is about as intelligent as the average person in the United States or elsewhere. Controversies and conspiracies go viral because they capture the human imagination. They appeal to an innate tendency in us to trust a more detailed version of the event with embroidered descriptions over a simpler version where incompetence, coincidence and happenstance determine what truly happened. If there are signs of a grand master plan linking the reported event to other significant events, then all the better. It requires the capability to apply sober second thought to deconstruct such narratives and dissuade oneself, which most people lack either by virtue of talent or training. There are those who would take advantage of this gullibility to spin narratives completely devoid of reality, these elites that you refer to. And as long as their mission is to enrich themselves at the expense of others, they will continue to do so, and society will suffer as a result. Education of the masses is the only solution.