The structure of the modern world demands mass adherence to faith in the institutions that maintain the existing order and make it run. We have to believe what the people within those institutions assure us to be true. This is why 'conspiracy theories' are universally anathema to the Establishment. Sham gives rise to coalitions because usually sham cannot be maintained without confederates. In other words, to keep the system afloat requires a conspiracy.
Modern civilisation is a conspiracy against Reality.
R.D. Laing explains in The Politics of Experience how people are 'conditioned' and 'brainwashed' by modern society. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high IQs if possible. From the moment of birth, when the Stone Age baby confronts the Twentieth century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father, and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful.