Conspiracy Reality – Why Revolt Never Happens

Throughout history, conspiracies were considered normal political realities. In monarchies and empires, suspecting plots from rivals was prudence, not paranoia. After the French Revolution, blaming secret societies such as the Illuminati was part of mainstream debate, and political movements like the Anti‑Masonic Party formed explicitly around such suspicions. Today, many believe that the United States' [US] Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] deliberately turned the term "conspiracy theory" into a pejorative. There is evidence that the CIA did help this linguistic trend in a document known as Dispatch 1035‑960, “Countering Criticism of the Warren Report” relating to the assassination of president John Fitzgerald Kennedy. However, the irony of the situation is that many use this fact as further evidence for their "theories" that a secretive "they" control everything. This is ironic because the overestimation of organizational power to the degree of believing that they control literally everything, including even the term "conspiracy theory", is clearly the main reason conspiracy theories have gained such a poor reputation in recent history.