“People who want to point out what they see as conspiracies are most often like dogs who bark at every shadow. They must have once seen a shadow worth barking at, but now anything in the general class qualifies, and they want to live their lives about this. And yours, too.

Sometimes you will even see a group of such dogs, absolutely hysterical with fury, chasing nothing other than a place where something real was blocking light. Of course, they never examine the sources that produce the bizarre artifacts they hunt so relentlessly. Pointedly, they never bring one down.

Not even one. In fact, the nature of their activity -demands- their failure.

This produces nervous and exhausted dogs.

Shadows? entirely unaffected.

If the consequences weren’t so deadly, the whole matter would be hilarious. Even to the dogs involved, could it be revealed to them. But this is not possible, as they are furiously occupied with their inquisitions.”

— an anonymous observer of ignorance masquerading as vigilance