To understand conspiracy theories, you need to understand the different conspiracies and why they originate in the first place. Competing politicians, corporations, governments, intelligence agencies, or simply people who feel they are not being heard and have experienced people in power lying to them and betraying their trust. And that distrust is not invented from nothing. Governments, intelligence services, corporations, institutions, and media in many countries have all been caught hiding, manipulating, spying, misleading, or lying before. Then add a complicated and chaotic world where people need something that explains what is happening, and conspiracy theories suddenly become much easier to understand. The important distinction is still whether people remain willing to question their own explanation too.
