Conspiracy theories are driven by a human need to feel that some greater power is in control. Any human who feels they lack instrumental control over their lives will use conspiracy theories as a means of comfort and way of allaying responsibility.

Nonetheless they are great fun and simple to generate: take two inalienable facts and join them with an unprovable story. For example. Fact One. The US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Kenya. Fact Two. The downing of a US stealth fighter by the Yugoslav army in former Yugoslavia. The story. The Chinese government allowed the Yugoslav army to test their new surface to air stealth missile system and the embassy bombing was retaliation.

Conspiracy theories become problematic when they interfere with you acting to create change in your life, or they simply fuel your stress.

Most conspiracy theorists I have met don't vote. And many of them know very little about the real live actual group of political leaders, experts from industry, finance, academia, and the media who meet every year under secret terms to further Western capitalism and its interests.

I haven't met one conspiracy theorist who has told me that the main reason we are all currently in lockdown due to SARS-Cov-2 virus and its accompanying COVID-19 disease is because the UK’s biological security strategy, published in 2018 to address the threat of pandemics, was not properly implemented. The UK government quite literally need the next six months to catch up or our systems will be overwhelmed.

So, mindfully, seek out the facts from reliable sources. They yield results that are actionable instead of fantasies to comfort you at night.