In part triggered by the discussions on access to the forum, I have wondered frequently whether above all other divides, male female, theist atheist, good guys wanks, if the real division is cock up conspiracy.
I know a number of people who think that almost everything we think is a conspiracy, the moon landings, 9 11, school shootings in the U.S., and I look at my experience of life and laugh. The amount of effort to lie convincingly is exhausting when spread across large numbers. We can and do lie all the time but the bigger the lie the more difficult it is to sustain.
That isn't to say, of course, that what people say I the truth, just what they hope it might be. We have such malfunctioning bullshit filters that we create a mass pile of the stuff, not because we mean to, but because that's how we work.
Some things happen because we are bad but to truly create disaster you need to add in quite how shite we are at plans.
