I am not going to claim that I know what goes on in the cellars of the dreaded Government. Nobody does. Heck, not even the Government knows what the Government does. That's how "good" they are.

Sure, everyone is trying to screw everyone over in this jungle 2.0 we call society. Nonetheless, before we jump into conclusions and get into an upper hypochondriac/paranoid mode, we have to at least give ourselves a chance and rationalize the thoughts flying through our skull.

"They manipulate evidence"

How come when one brings something as evidence they are corrupted but your evidence are impartial and free from any monetary influence? How come all those conspiracy youtube videos don't care about money and manipulating the human perception but the ones you are opposing are evil aimed to take advantage of you? Aren't all of us "in it to make money" after all?

"I know the truth they have been hiding"

Sure man. You are they Paladin Master of google searching. Your special interest keywords for tracking biased blogs are unparalleled to any other. Here is a question though. How come the Government (that based on your perception controls everything), failed to block X's blog? How X got hold of that information if the government is so freaking good at hiding information? Why are you so special?

"They are poisoning us so they can control us"

My question is not if they are spraying us or injecting us. The real question is why. Don't they breath the same air as us? Don't they eat food from the same fields? Also, if they are really mind controlling people with substances then how did you manage to escape from their grip? Aren't the alternative medicine hippies in it for the money as well? Why that kind of knowledge is good, impure and healthy but any corporate one is evil?

"You can't prove it is not possible"

That's like the trump card. Nobody can prove a negative. I can't prove there are no invisible pink flying elephants hiding behind the moon orchestrating a planetary take over. If you can't get passed Hitchen's logic then don't even think about making the assumption. It is pointless and intellectually retarded.

Real conspiracies do happen. No doubt. The story with Snowden and NSA was rather an eye-opener. Nonetheless, due to the rare occurrences of these incidents people tend to follow an over-generalized attitude for every little thing that is our of their reach. Suddenly everything becomes dangerous, a conspiracy to get away from. Anxiety takes over. You try to hide from everyone and everything.

Correlation is not Causation

Just because we are able to connect the dots and find a correlation, it does not mean that everything has a causative explanation. Shit happens and the reason is simply because of entropy — not because someone is holding the strings. Our brains are not built to be logical but instinctual. If something in a bush makes a sound we are more likely to perceive it as a threat. We keep our guard up rather than assume it is the wind or something else inanimate. This is how helpless we are.

Your fear is a commodity

Individuals will use and abuse your fears to make you take stupid decisions for their own benefit. I witness this on Steemit on a daily basis. Whether the subject is vaccines, the government, the FED or anything else in between, the Tinfoil Vigilante crew will magnetize your decisions towards what they are selling. It is the easiest way to make money. Fear sells like no other thing due to instinctual response for self preservation. And Thank Dog for them, sheeple are abundant.

Conspiracy theorists are fearful individuals and for a good reason. The world is a scary place and one has to keep their guard up if they are to maintain an edge on things. Nonetheless, much like our immune system, our brain's threat detector can't be "ON" all the time. The mechanism gets trigger happy and us a result it ends up treating everything as a threat — including itself.