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> if you aren't doing something of your own kind of conspiracy and you're instead obsessing over real or imagined conspiracies that other people are doing, you'
by silicon2401 4y ago
> if you aren't doing something of your own kind of conspiracy and you're instead obsessing over real or imagined conspiracies that other people are doing, you're wasting your time
That's an incredibly practical insight IMO. It's true: the more you focus on achieving your own goals, the less you care about what else is going on in the world; the most that you care about is overcoming obstacles, but that's the case regardless of whether they're caused by other people's conspiracy plots or random accidents (at least that's the case for me).
- jstarfish 4y agoThere's an even more practical aspect to it-- conspiracies involve multiple parties. In trying to take one down, you have neither sovereignty nor numbers on your side. You have n opponents you have to indict through legal means, but they only have one...and have already proven they are willing to use illegal/unethical tactics to achieve their goals. So even if you're absolutely right about whatever you think is going on, it's a losing proposition to take on someone else's conspiracy as a pet crusade.