Conspiracy theory requires paranoia, and USA has huge amounts of paranoia, UNFOUNDED FEAR!
"The Most Exceptional Thing About America Is Our Paranoia"
In the United States, you’re more likely to be crushed by falling furniture than killed by a terrorist—but try telling that to Washington.
By Tom Engelhardt September 29, 2015
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-most-exceptional-thing-about-america-is-our-paranoia/
"Exceptional Fact #1: Failure Is Success, or the United States Remains the Sole Superpower
If you were to isolate the single most striking, if little discussed, aspect of American foreign policy in the first 15 years of this century, it might be that Washington’s inability to apply its power successfully just about anywhere confirms that very power; in other words, failure is a marker of success."
Explain.
"In the post-9/11 years, American power in various highly militarized forms has been let loose repeatedly across a vast swath of the planet from the Chinese border to deep in Africa—and nowhere in those 14 years, despite dreams of glory and global dominion, has the United States succeeded in any of its strategic goals."
Failing to manage defense is no surprise.
"Though there was much talk in the early years of this century of “nation building” abroad, American power has been able to build nothing. "
We butt in where we are not needed, and cannot succeed.
"Its effect everywhere has been purely disintegrative (unless you count the creation of a terror “caliphate” in parts of collapsed Syria and Iraq as a non-disintegrative act). Under the pressure of American power, there have been no victories, nor even in any traditional sense successes, while whole countries have collapsed, populations have been uprooted, and peoples put into flight by the millions. No matter how you measure it, American power has, in other words, been a tempest of failure. "
Security?
"Exceptional Fact #2: Americans Are Actually Safe and Secure
Think of exceptional fact two as the don’t-believe-your-ears one."
Yep. Internal extremists are our greatest tgreat, so we look across oceans for threats? Ha! A joke!
"Exceptional Fact #3: A Culture of Victimhood Is Developing Among the Inhabitants of the Planet’s Sole Superpower
[What follows is sarcasm . . . Just so you know it and do not believe this is a set of facts. lol! The opposite is the real fact, e.g., the most obvious is that our military is underfinanced! Are you kidding! We could not flush more money down the toilet unless we let DoD print money.]
Given exceptional facts one and two, what could be more exceptional than significant numbers of Americans living in a fear-based culture of victimhood laced with paranoia and extremism that seems to have captured one of the two major political parties?
In it [USA paranoia], Americans are always at the mercy of the evil doers everywhere, including those distinctly in our midst with mayhem in mind. Our military is an under financed wreck, our Navy practically a set of dinghies, a Muslim is even in the White House, a malign climate-change movement is eager to destroy capitalism as we know it, women’s bodies are enough of a danger to shut the government down, immigrants are potential terrorists or rapists, and so on and so forth through a litany of strangely woven fantasies and factoids."
Read on . . .
"In this context, while the US military pursues its failing wars, interventions, and raids abroad, while the national security state develops ever more mechanisms for snooping, surveilling, and controlling populaces at home (as in the recent essentially unprecedented security lockdowns of major American cities “for” the pope), many of the country’s citizens are increasingly living inside a fact-challenged fantasy of a country, a victimized superpower."
"Globalization and the Conspiracy Theory"
Calance Madalina
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212567115004748
"Abstract
Globalization is a complex long-term process with positive and negative effects that inevitably lead to positive and negative opinions. The economic science offers an abstract understanding of the process, seen as the ultimate internationalization of commerce, capital, finances and labor. The anti-globalist side perceives globalization as the engine of a new imperialism, which replaces the old military expansionism with economic instruments. The conspiratorial vision further sustains that globalization is a subversive process, directed for hundreds of years in order to serve the interest of the global elites."
This article is dense, complex, but worth reading.
"By analyzing the literature and the virtual conspiracy rhetoric, we found five conditions that allow the perpetuation of conspiracy theories: (1) the historical precedents (2) the discontinuities of modernity (3) the opposing doctrines and the related social categorizing; (4) the lack of certainty and transparency; (5) the persistence of the myth. We consider that globalization was conducted through many forms of imperialism, revealing the human need for power and domination. Even if there is no clear evidence of a major plot to globalize the economy, we can still show that globalization is a process conducted by intention and individual/group interest - in different time periods, sequentially and systematically - and not by the random choices of unorganized individuals seeking the extension of their profits. "
Of course globalization is not random because it has a purpose of making people rich! But seeking to be rich is not a crime or sinister, pursuit of riches is normal.
