I adore a good conspiracy. Unfortunately, they just don’t come around all that often. The idea of a successful ongoing secret conspiracy … well, there are precious few of those.
Take for example most criminal conspiracies - most mob business, Hoffa’s death, drug cartels, governments of many third-world countries, and the like. It’s routinely reported that only a very, very few people are enriched and only for relatively brief periods of time. Typically, the people running these businesses aren’t geniuses. So, the profits get poorly invested, gambled away, used for “cost of business” expenses, and so forth.
But, if an Illuminati-style group really existed in a successful, on-going sense… and I became aware of it … I would probably pester them with questions until they kill me from pure parental frustration. I’m the guy who goes to Disney World and wonders about the utilities. Do you know how many gallons of water they need to process every hour just for this one ride alone?
This was my first thought. Great, I’ll go talk to the lizard running the show and tell her to get real about global warming! Also, the Trump-bot is broken and needs replacing with a more convincing model.
I am a white male. When they were handing out the black helicopters, and the plantations full of serfs, I must have missed the memo, because I didn’t get mine.
While true, various conspiracy theories eventually became accepted as fact
Iran-Contra
The holocaust
Large scale spying in the US
Operation northwoods
Secret clandestine plans of the CIA (heart attack guns, overthrowing foreign nations, etc)
Manhattan project
etc
IF I were part of this vast, worldwide conspiracy I might answer that, if you are already unknowingly doing our bidding for free, why should we bother putting you on our payroll?
The people who meet at Davos are members of countries that occasionally fight wars against each-other, so it seems pretty unlikely that they’re all on the same page when it comes to ruling the world.
Most of the world (myself included) believes 9/11 was pulled off by a transnational network of conspirators led by a bearded billionaire from a remote mountain base. There doesn’t actually seem to be that much trouble getting people to believe some crazy conspiracy theories assuming there’s enough evidence.
But war is, in fact, less and less common. That’s partly because the leadership of most countries IS, in fact, on the same page.
For instance, there is no NEED for elites to meet secretly to plot out Europe’s future. The EU’s bureaucrats and Europe’s billionaires meet to make all of the important decisions OPENLY, and don’t even bother to PRETEND any longer to have anything but contempt for ordinary Europeans who doubt their wisdom.
The Junckers and Merkels really DO get together and decide what goes on in Europe. Is that a “conspiracy”? Not really, as it’s no secret to ANYBODY!
What if there was? well, what could I do? Tell someone? What SHOULD I do? I have no idea. I try to live my life as best I can and feel fortunate I don’t live in Syria, Bangladesh, China, or some other third world. My own needs are well provided for. I do worry greatly about humanity’s future, but again, nothing to be done.
I’d finally ascertain that college football is fixed and work to install my favorite team as one of the perennial national powers - and make sure that our historic rival always falls just short of a good season.