Someone should probably have told people this before *insert war of your choice here*

[andrewducker]

Fictitious sources also confirmed that the so-called "masterminds" behind our country's security and strategic defense are in fact people of moderate to reasonably above-average intelligence just like us who perform their jobs with more or less the same degree of competence and zeal as any regular person with a job would.

"Obviously, it would be very comforting, and pretty cool, if there were stealth groups of resourceful, naturally gifted secret agents like me scouring the planet, rooting out terrorist sleeper cells, and tracking down Osama bin Laden," said a multilingual computer/ explosives/espionage expert who most Americans actually believe is a real guy out there. "I'm not denying that would be amazing; my only point is that it just isn't true."

"Believe me, I wish I existed, too," the fake man added. "I would probably be great."

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[guybles.livejournal.com]

Heh.

A friend of mine once spent an hour or so ranting about conspiracies. I eventually cracked and pointed out something rather similar to this: no matter where you go, there are no cabals of sinister plotters, just people who have been incompetent and desperately trying to cover up their mistakes.

[andrewducker]

Oh, I'm sure that there are groups of people who do things that are not in my interest, and don't broadcast it to the world (the being the definition of a conspiracy) - but I figure they mostly get away with little things.

Stuff like "not telling people that they knew that cigarettes were harmful" is pretty easy to cover up.

Stuff like "Spending billions on faking sending man to the moon, involving many tens of thousands of people, companies and pieces of kit", on the other hand, would be impossible to cover up.