- Interstellar dead end | Space Travel
- A Scaly Ancestor
- The Lost Vostok | The amazing journey
- A Vegetable Garden without Soil
- The Petri Dish and It’s Story
- Geological Periods
- Parkinson’s Disease: A 200-year struggle
- Hiding From Us
- Fractals
- Soap and Other Surfactants
- Underwater Web
- History of containers
- How to Be a Friend to Someone with Special Needs
- 100 Seconds To The End Of The World | Doomsday Clock
Topic Last Updated on 03-07-2024
Conspiracy Theories | Resources
How many people are involved in the conspiracy?
What do they need to accomplish the plan?
What is the infrastructure of the project like?
There are several conspiracy theories that state that some secret society governs the world. For example, the Illuminati—the original name given to various occultist, philosophical associations—were, as a rule, in opposition to the authorities. But today, conspiracy experts say this is a small group composed of the wealthiest people in the world who have leverage over global leaders and control the activities of many, if not all, countries.
It’s necessary, however, to understand that secret world domination would require colossal resources, well-established infrastructure, and top specialists in every field. Meanwhile, every participant would have to be incredibly devoted to their work in order to keep silent about their secret mission, and they must not even consider betrayal. But, in addition to the inner circle of main villains, a huge workforce would be needed to handle documents, conduct espionage, configure servers, repair printers, and even just clean up the office after it’s all done! The leaders would have to be nothing short of management geniuses to keep such an organization running smoothly. All of this means that the selection and training of personnel in the Illuminati would have to be organized with no lower standards than an intelligence service. Any error would threaten their secrecy.
Debunking Conspiracies
The Manhattan Project was a secret US program supported by Canada and the United Kingdom to develop a nuclear weapon during World War II. Many outstanding scientists were among the participants of the project: Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr, John Von Neumann, and Richard Feynman. In the period from 1942 to 1945, three atomic bombs were created: the first was detonated at a test range in the state of New Mexico, and the other two were dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The high level of secrecy was due to a desire to conceal the development of nuclear weapons from the Axis Powers and the Soviet Union.
Some will object, saying that conspiracies still happen in real life. And they are right. For example, consider the many coup d’états throughout history. The difference here, though, is obvious. Coups are organized by small groups of like-minded people who pursue a specific goal and disintegrate after it is achieved (or, well, after the conspiracy is uncovered with all the ensuing consequences).
The Manhattan Project Perspective
The Manhattan Project was far more massive in scale: over 120,000 people worked to implement it. But builders, cooks, and even many of the scientists did know the main goal of their project. They were informed only of its importance and the need for secrecy, and they were told to perform specific tasks. Each employee underwent strict FBI scrutiny, incoming and outgoing mail was censored, and all people involved signed a non-disclosure agreement.
Despite all the precautions and generous funding, the system did not work perfectly. For example, Richard Feynman described some of the work of the Los Alamos Laboratory in his book, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! When trying to outwit the security, he found a hole in the fence of the top-secret enterprise, which lazy workers had not investigated, and easily picked the locks of storage containing classified documents. The official report of the US Department of Energy refers to 1,500 cases of unintentional information leakage and 1,200 cases of rule violations pertaining to the handling of classified documents.
Conspiracy Theories | Benefits
What will the conspirators receive?
Is it worth the effort?
What makes people keep “corporate” secrets for decades?
Conspiracy involvement entails complexity, risk, and constant secrecy. Those privy to hidden knowledge cannot share their achievements openly or discuss their work with loved ones. What drives individuals to such lengths? It’s been 50 years since the first Moon landing, yet no conspirator has come forward. While astronauts and project leaders gained honor and fame, preserving their reputation, ordinary engineers could have revealed the truth, potentially becoming heroes.
Even less obvious are the benefits that those who believe in the round Earth “conspiracy” reap! Adherents of the Flat Earth doctrine believe that our planet is a disk, that the Moon and the Sun revolve around it, that there is no force of gravity, and that instead of the arctic poles, a wall of ice rises along the edges of the disk. Why the powers that be would hide this from us remains a mystery.
