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a story so good it stays alive without ever needing to be true.
means a secret plan by two or more people to do something harmful, unlawful, or deceitful.
from From Latin conspirare, literally 'to breathe together' — con- ('with') plus spirare ('to breathe'), the same root that gives us spirit and respiration. The image is intimate and slightly sinister: heads bent close, voices low, conspirators sharing one breath as if a single hidden purpose moved through all of them. It reached English through Old French in the late Middle Ages, already carrying the whiff of plotters huddled in the dark.
- legal origin
- crime even if the plan never happens
- latin root
- conspirare means to breathe together
- real ones exist
- COINTELPRO and Watergate were proven, not paranoia
- brain wiring
- humans find patterns in pure randomness
- the irony
- loud theories distract from quiet actual schemes
operation northwoods — 1962 us military plan to stage false flag attacks on americans to justify war with cuba, declassified 1997
tuskegee syphilis study — 1932-1972 us public health service withheld penicillin from 600 black men to study untreated syphilis
cointelpro — fbi's 1956-1971 counterintelligence program that infiltrated and disrupted civil rights and black nationalist groups