Dunno really. I suppose a well-told conspiracy story makes for the kind of fiction

that blends the real in with the fantasy. Episode 1 of the new series of Utopia was a brilliant case-in-point. They used the real-life assassination of Airey Neave and the vote of no confidence in the Callaghan government in '79 and repurposed them to fit with the narrative of the global conspiracy story that they'd spent the entire of the previous series building up to.

Willing suspension of disbelief.

I take your point about lazy and trite theories like the moon landing stuff or September 11th, and the halfwits that peddle it, but I still find the psychology of those people interesting.

Posted By: Arizona Bay, Jul 23, 19:19:40