![]() ![]() More importantly, conspiracy is a way to maintain control. The fact that you achieved less than you hoped for, that your life is a mess – it’s all the fault of the conspiracy. In Russia this is captured in the catchphrase of the country’s most important current affairs presenter: ‘A coincidence? I don’t think so!’ says Dmitry Kiselev as he twirls between tall tales that dip into history, literature, oil prices and colour revolutions, which all return to the theme of how the world has it in for Russia.Īnd as a world view it grants those who subscribe to it certain pleasures: if all the world is a conspiracy, then your own failures are no longer all your fault. Conspiracy does not support the ideology it replaces it. With today’s regimes, which struggle to formulate a single ideology – indeed, which can’t if they want to maintain power by sending different messages to different people – the idea that one lives in a world full of conspiracies becomes the world view itself. But those conspiracies were ultimately there to buttress an ideology, whether class warfare for Communists or race for Nazis. “Conspiracy theories have long been used to maintain power: the Soviet leadership saw capitalist and counter-revolutionary conspiracies everywhere the Nazis, Jewish ones. ![]()
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