It's not conspiracy. it's merely co-complicity.

Yeah, that's a coined term because English doesn't really have a good descriptor for what I mean. It's more than being fellow-travelers, less substantive than being conspirators.

When the news media, the giant industrial corporations, the military, and the other juggernauts of our twisted, inhuman society seem to be pointing in the same direction and the Republicans and DLC are right there licking their intimate body parts and doing their will, it's not necessarily an explicit conspiracy that welds them together. Power brokers don't have to meet in Manhattan or London penthouses and say,"We're all going to raise oil prices" or "We're going to convince the public that the Surge is working," or "We want the media to suck the air out of John Edwards." They don't HAVE to do that. They all just know implicitly what is to be done, and who will have what role. It's futile to look for conspiracies. There are no conspiracies. There are only co-complicities. They are much more subtle, they are insusceptible to exposure because they don't even exist in any definable sense--a fact which makes them more powerful rather than less.


Co-complicity: An interwoven network of complicity.

"An individual is complicit in a crime if they are aware of its occurrence, have the ability to report the crime, but fail to do so. As such the individual effectively allows the criminals to carry out a crime despite easily being able to stop them, either directly or by contacting the authorities thus making them a de-facto accessory to the crime rather than innocent bystanders."--Wikipedia

As usual.

NGU.

Go along to get along and get a piece of the action.