> Most people prefer to believe in what they /want/ to be true, rather than face
> the possibility that what sounds /horrible/ might actually /be/ the truth
The irony is that the conspiracies you believe in are exactly this. They're things you want to be true, because you can't stand the idea that not everything has a purpose; it has to be all part of some master plan. The idea makes you feel more in control, because you "know the truth". In fact, you use very powerful confirmation bias to keep the belief intact in your head. You might even be very intelligent; higher intelligence helps with rationalizing stupid beliefs.
This is why I said before: most people are reasonably intelligent. The problem with conspiracy theorists is not that they are unintelligent, but that they misapply their intelligence toward confirming stupid beliefs that make them feel comfortable, rejecting evidence against the belief and accepting even the tiniest indication that the belief is true (such as a symbol that kind of sort of looks like another symbol if you draw a couple lines in it). The same applies to other types of stupid beliefs, like creationism and belief in a flat Earth, though their reasons for believing the stupid shit they believe is different from conspiracy theorists.
You will probably ignore what I'm saying here and continue to look for reasons to believe the crazy shit you believe, because the very idea that you might be wrong is too much for you to handle. Or you'll tell me to read your links again so that I can discover "the truth".
Don't get me wrong; there is some truth in your ramblings. But you're dead wrong if you think the parts you do get right are a part of a huge master conspiracy, rather than varying results of independent actions from several people with different objectives. Mind control, for example, is studied mostly by advertisers. No, it's not because they're cooperating with the government in some massive project to create 1984, it's because they want to trick people into buying their crap more effectively.
