{"id":2400,"date":"2013-04-17T01:28:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T01:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2018\/12\/08\/2030-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2019-07-13T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T13:31:18","slug":"meta-conspiracies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/17\/meta-conspiracies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta-conspiracies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editorial notes<\/strong>: This Essay was found as a ‘draft’ entry in Everything2.<\/sub> It was last updated on 17\/04\/2013.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s an idea: What if a conspiracy does not need its members to be knowing participants?<\/p>\n

What next? We could go ahead and define a type of conspiracies as being those entities whose members are unknowing participants (MaUPs) – and these we can call m-conspiracies – but that is obviously a disappointing achievement. Aside from the property of including MaUPs, m-conspiracies should include the other properties of conspiracies. The cabal, which is to name the members of a conspiracy, are those individuals that work towards a conspiracy’s goals. When people speak of a conspiracy, they tend to mean the end result of a conspiracy, whether it be a war, an economic or political move, or even a manipulation of the mundane world.<\/p>\n

What is the difference between a conspiracy and a loose collection of individuals who unknowingly share a common goal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editorial notes: This Essay was found as a ‘draft’ entry in Everything2. It was last updated on 17\/04\/2013. Here’s an idea: What if a conspiracy does not need its members to be knowing participants? What next? We could go ahead and define a type of conspiracies as being those entities whose members are unknowing participants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,103,204,77],"tags":[],"metadata":[101],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-essay","category-everything2","category-perspective","metadata-editor_notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1779,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2011\/05\/03\/defining-molecular-biology-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2400,"position":0},"title":"Defining molecular biology","author":"Pala","date":"May 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial notes: This Essay was found as a 'draft' entry in Everything2. 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