I often say similar things on this topic. It doesn't have to be an explicit conspiracy (though there is certainly likely to be a number of conspiracies along t

I often say similar things on this topic. It doesn't have to be an explicit conspiracy (though there is certainly likely to be a number of conspiracies along the way). As a physicist by training I think of these things as the stable attractors we see in complex systems, where out of chaos certain configurations act to pull everything towards them. A totalitarian world of surveillance and conflict which feed off each other leading to us liquidating more and more of our economy to feed the beast, creating insecurity at home and a knee jerk support of those carrying this stuff out, in the name of attacking some faceless enemy is an attractor with many individuals acting in self interest generating motion in that direction. Complacency prevents people breaking the cycle. A belief that it's a pendulum swinging back and forth rather than a drift towards a stable attractor from which it's hard to move back again.