We Have Met the Enemy and It is Us

A critical distinction and one that we should keep in mind as the JFK anniversary approaches: The problem with conspiracy theory isn't that it believes that the government is not to be trusted.  The trouble with conspiracy theory is its simplism; its simple faith that by holding a mirror up to the power structure its shadow opposite can be discerned--that the enemy isn't the hegemon we know, but a hidden hegemon that can be known.Our big trouble isn't that outsiders (Communists, Fascists, Jewish globalist bankers) have secretly subverted our otherwise flawless system--it's that the system itself is systemically corrupt.