The opposite of a conspiracy theorist is a coincidence theorist. When I was younger I tended toward the former posture, but as I age I’m leaning in the latter direction. I’ve seen time and time again that what looks from the outside like a vast conspiracy is often just incompetence or negligence or stupidity repeated so often that they start to look conspiratorial.
That excellent CIA record-keeping | Michael Tomasky (via spratt)
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity
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