Further complicating matters is that people have adopted a conspiratorial counter-conspiracy mindset which mimics the form and content, the paranoia, of the prime generators of paranoia: the alphabet agencies and their private firms. In secret, armchair info warriors have become conspirators themselves. In short: they fancy themselves indy undercover operatives. Such go online under cover; sometimes banding up; they tag-team; they collude anonymously in public and semi-anonymously behind the scenes with like-minded others. You have independent groups actively sowing, spreading and growing their own pet agendas. Just like some secret services we know.
Further, further complicating things, is that the myriad alphabet agencies, private security organizations, bounty hunters, and freelance mercenaries, often have in-house information warriors working at cross-purposes, unbeknownst to the other, whether on the clock or off the clock.
I would not be surprised that some agency operatives sow disinfo on the clock while trying to correct it or reverse the damage off the clock, on private time, at home with beer and undies and conscience.
All ripe for RAW's Optimum Fuckup (of the Disinformation Matrix), explained by Celine's Laws:
CELINE'S LAWS
by Hagbard Celine
http://www.bkmarcus.com/belief/celine/
...But further yet: any government which already has a secret police (and a secret police monitoring the secret police, etc). will become alarmed on observing that its more hip and intelligent citizens now regard it with loathing and misgivings. The government will therefore increase the size and powers of the secret police. This is the only rational move, within the context of the secret-police game.
(The only alternative was once suggested sarcastically by playwright Bert Brecht, who said, "If the government doesn't trust the people, why doesn't it dissolve them and elect new people?" No way has yet been invented to elect a new people; so the police state will instead spy on the existing people even more vigorously).
This, of course, creates additional paranoia in both the governors and the citizens, because a sufficiently pugnacious secret police will eventually "have a file on everybody," including its own creators. This leads to another infinite regress: the more people will loathe the government, the more power will be given to the secret police.
Thus, whether any of the hypothetical conspiracies mentioned earlier really exist or not, a system of clandestine government inevitably produces, in both the rulers and the ruled, a mood of paranoia in which such conspiracy theories flourish.
This escalating sense of suspiciousness is accelerated by the fact that every secret-police organization engages in both the collection of information and the production misinformation. That is, you score points in the secret-police game both by hoarding signals (information units)---that is, by hiding facts from competitive players---and by foisting false signals (fake information units) on the other players. This creates the situation which I call Optimum Fuckup, in which every participant has rational (not neurotic) cause to suspect that every other player may be attempting to deceive him, gull him, con him, dupe him, and generally misinform him. As Henry Kissinger is rumored to have said, "Anybody in Washington these days who isn't paranoid is crazy!"
One could generalize the remark: anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy!!!
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