Actually it’s not such a profound point at all. The modern imperialist states have evolved very large-scale conspiratorial organizations with trained operatives and sophisticated techniques. These are our "security" and "intelligence" organizations and their role is to do illegal subversive things overseas (and at home).
Because the spooks do things that would often involve elected politicians in deep trouble if they were party to the details, the politicians prefer not to know. They effectively hand over enormous power to a tiny unelected group and the only guarantee they thereafter have that the organization stays within reasonable bounds is that its leaders will wield their subversive power with integrity, moderation and judgement.
Alas, power of this sort usually attracts dubious personality types, including those who are turned on by duplicity and the type of idealogue who thinks he (it’s almost always he, of course) knows what’s in the best interests of the ignorant masses and their stupid elected representatives.
These organizations are set up with military-style compartmentalisation. The foundation of ordinary military operational security is the restriction of knowledge of any one sub-section to the minimum necessary for successful operation. If foot soldiers are given the whole picture they’ll give the whole game away if they get captured or blab in the earshot of spies.
That principle is magnified enormously in secret subversive organizations. Operatives have narrowly defined jobs and, in the interests of secrecy, they do not discuss business or compare notes with other operatives in different departments. They do what they’re told and they don’t ask searching questions. They don’t get together after work at the pub to gossip or brag. That’s the foundation of the profession. You get into a lot of trouble if you breach the code.
So only the small group at the top know everything. Only they can see the whole picture. This hands the rogue manipulators enormous power. With it, they can set big conspiracies in train using relatively small numbers of people.
One of the most important of the conspiratorial black arts is "controlling the narrative". Through it, the conspiracy spreads to involve what might be called "unconscious conspirators". When a false flag operation like 9/11, or 7/7 in London is set in motion, the official line is promulgated and accepted by the mainstream media within hours, if not minutes of the deed. Most importantly, the "perpetrator" is quickly identified and his methodology established. It was Arabs, Muslims, suicide bombers, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden. They used TATP, or aircraft. Whatever.
All experienced state conspirators now know that in an emergency situation the official media can almost always be relied upon to avoid "irresponsible" speculation and inquiry and to rally patriotically to the defence of the nation. Ditto the politicians. In this special sense a conspiracy can be very large indeed. It is naïve to think otherwise.
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