We all despise conspiracy theories. Most of us like to read about them, for fun, but we know there isn’t a shred of truth in any of that stuff. And even if there had been any real conspiracies in history, they never achieved their ghastly ends. Take bolshevism, for example. It had a good innings for 70-odd years. But where is it now? What?!? In Cannes, floating along in 300-foot yachts? You’re a conspiracy theorist. Off with your head. Repeat after me: bolshevism ended in 1991. The original conspiracy is no more. OK, that’s better.
Or look at the Frankfurt School, all those Marcuses and Adornos who fused Marx with Freud to undermine the free world. Their madcap idea was not to overturn Western institutions by force but to infiltrate them the better to destroy them from the inside. How crazy can one get? Just consider some of their stated aims:
1. The creation of racism offences.
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family
Now who in his right mind would think that any of this could have possibly succeeded? Only those deranged conspiracy theorists. So glad you and I aren’t among them.