Alan Moore on Conspiracy Theories

"In the mid 1980s I was asked by an American legal institution known as the Christic Institute, to compile a comic book which would detail the murky history of the CIA from the end of the 2nd World War to the present day. Covering things such as the heroine smuggling during the Vietnam War, the cocaine smuggling during the war in Central America, the Kennedy assassination and other highlights.

What I learned during the frankly horrifying research that I had to slug through to accomplish this, was that yes there is a conspiracy. In fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns.

If you are on a list targeted by the CIA., you really have nothing to worry about. If however, you have a name similar to somebody on a list targeted by the CIA then you are dead.

The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting.

The truth of the world is that it is chaotic.

The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12 foot reptiloids from another dimension that is in control.

The truth is far more frightening.

Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless."

--- The Mindscape of Alan Moore