If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle.
Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach.
All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. Some people spend decades or even their entire lives trying to prove the existence of things like flying saucers or evil forces in the Bermuda Triangle. Some become obsessed thinking that these forces are actually conspiring to focus this evil energy directly towards them. Such behavior is not new. From the dawn of civilization, people feared and worshiped forces of nature which they couldn't rationally explain.