Emergent Processes vs Conspiracies

[Blobbenstein]

There are 7 billion people on this planet, which is ruled by nature and the laws of nature.

Even the mega rich are only human. They depend on the system; they depend on the people around them.
As postulated in the book Manufacturing Consent, a lot of what happens in the media, is the result of lots of people just watching their own back, playing by existing, emergent processes. Stories are promoted or hushed up, in the media, not by conspiracy but because everyone is too frightened to lose their job, or become pariahs in their environment. TV stations will not fund programs that will upset advertisers...etc, and this is the way that a world view emerges and is promoted.

The rich don't want to be pariahs either; to their friends, and family....there is always the chance that the richest person in the world could lose all his/her wealth.

Each little step in the chain leads to one kind of world or another.

If it is a conspiracy, I think it is the battle between the forces of creation and the forces of destruction; maybe between God and Satan....

 

[Second Summer]

I think there are a lot more emergent processes, as you call it, at play than conspiracies. Not to say I don't believe there are any conspiracies, of course, but they probably tend to involve only a small number of people, and be less complex than commonly believed.

 

[Andy_T]

If you ever tried to keep something really secret, that a large number of people is involved in, it should give you some ideas how credible most of the conspiracy theories really are....

I mean, e.g., the Illuminati flawlessly orchestrate any major mischief, without any screw-ups and information leaks? They must be really very well organized....