[quote=Rustico]I don’t expect lots of large longstanding conspiracies except a consiracy to hold power. [/quote]
Exactly! It only shifts names and methodologies over the centuries. That there is one over-arching conspiracy is true in the abstract and some people make a comic book interpretation of this. Assign a secret society to this tendency, with a secret goal, so forth and so on.
The top lizards in global politics, money and war have done business the same way since the feudal age — which is to say with arrogant disregard for the rest of us