Fox Mulder looked over at Dana Scully. She knew he would regale her with another conspiracy theory about how the government was behind the latest kidnapping. She looked back at the lifeless corpses of the bodyguards. A familiar voice said in the darkness,” Scully, I want to believe”.
The basis for the beliefs in conspiracies can be traced to those geniused government leaders who thought they knew more than the American people; and, as such, fumbled their way through disguising life to be their own vision of what it should be. Their own personal Ozzie and Harriet existence forced upon the rest of us.
In the late 60’s a friend of mine in Naval Intelligence said he had seen the body of an alien. It had been secreted and was not accessible to the public, because the government didn’t think the American people could handle the information. He was credible and serious . . and believable.
But, who knows what he saw? The time was ripe for distrust. The assassination of JFK, the Viet-Nam War and Watergate brought governmental distrust and conspiracy theories to a fever pitch.
But, that was 50 years ago. Intelligent people have moved on.
I still enjoy the reruns on the X-Files. But, that was a TV series . . drama . . invented actions and beliefs which tapped into the subconscious fears of the era.
It was not, and is not real except to those who still have an adolescent mentality, lacking in the ability to think intelligently and make critical distinctions.