Re: more conspiracy

The root of the word "conspire" means "to breath together."

In my view, there is nothing very exceptional about conspiracy.

The world is full of conspiring.  The problem with the typical use of the
term is that it implies One Great Conspiracy.  Anyone who has studied
elite conflict knows that such a thing doesn't exist -- the capitalists
have factions and fractions as do any other group.  Their conspiring
doesn't always succeed, as opposed to the paranoid visions of the
ill-informed.

But that doesn't mean that elite policy planning groups such as CFR and TC
don't "conspire" to carry out an elite agenda.  That they do so "in plain
sight" is partly to demonstrate their innocuousness, which was my previous
point.  You'll forgive me if I don't believe them on this point.  

So to sum up, in my view you don't need any special "conspiracy theory," 
you merely need good sociological organizational theory to realize that
without "conspiring" much of social life would grind to a halt.  From
another angle, why would democracy continue to be such a pressing need if
not for the fact that there isn't that much of it, because most important
decisions are made through the "conspiring" of elite groups?

RH