con·spire (kn-spr)

v.
con·spired, con·spir·ing, con·spires

v.intr.

1. To plan together secretly to commit an illegal or wrongful act or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.

2. To join or act together; combine: v.tr.

To plan or plot secretly.

[Middle English conspiren, from Old French, from Latin com + spirare, to breathe.]

Isn’t it strange how a word that originates from the Latin words meaning breathing together has evolved to mean something dreadful and fearful? English is like that; it grows and changes like the living thing it is. So we start with ‘breathing together’, and this gives us ‘acting together’ and then all of a sudden we are ‘plotting’!

We can mimic this process in our own minds. We see something, we don’t understand it and then we project our fears upon it and va-voom! They are talking about us! It / they are a threat! We can then live in that imagined ‘reality’ and build up our fear, which leads to hatred and suddenly our world has two more people who we don’t like, or another thing that we are afraid of.

Fear and ignorance do amazing things to us. They generate and project more images than a Hollywood studio!

Don’t let your fears and insecurities turn good things to neutral and neutral ones to bad…

“The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign that the conspiracy is working”

“The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people’s desire to believe that there is – some group of folks who know what they’re doing” Damon Knight