Many people believe what happened on 9/11 is linked to what's happening now with covid-19
There is a common plot of naivete and incompetent planning with poor foresight, followed by an event, followed by fear, followed by incompetent responses by incompetent leaders. Beyond that, I don't know.
Our minds have been evolving in adversarial environments for hundreds of thousands of years in order to better predict the future. And with mass media we are able to see all kinds of predictions from many minds, most often ones that generate fear because we're attuned to it as a survival tool. Fear sells almost as good as sex. One of our faults seems to be we're more willing to invest more time into fantasies like watching The Walking Dead than invest into appreciating what we have and preventing societal collapse. This despite the greatest investment ever made in painstakingly building it on top of a mountain of corpses of the past, so that we can make and watch a TV show like The Walking Dead.
Ironically conspiracy theorists that like to believe in just about every conspiracy they hear of, because their minds are too open, are the greatest useful idiots for any real conspiracy if it actually exists.
I was just talking with my father about this earlier today and explaining how some believe things like 9/11 and covid-19 are sort of just incompetence as opposed to a more nefarious intentional possibility and I admit I can't prove it 100%, but I've more and more moved towards the "they did these things with intention" camp as opposed to they were just ignorant and incompetent.
I am open minded to the idea that these events weren't just spontaneous events that were capitalized on by the power structure and that they were planned, perhaps even planned a LONG time ago.
I agree fear sells and is one of the most powerful tools used against us. If we weren't so afraid of dying or pain or whatever then we wouldn't be controlled nearly as much by the people who know how to manipulate such for their own aims and goals.
Very interesting point about people being more invested in a fantasy show like The Walking Dead as opposed to trying to meaningfully help society. Sometimes I feel like there's something more to that whole "zombie" archetype and that perhaps shows like that have become very popular for a reason and there's something deeper going on there in regard to the state of unconsciousness, or... Low functioning consciousness.
It really almost feels like there's a lot of walking dead out there because they just go with whatever the flow is as opposed to going deeper into themselves and the nature of existence.
I sort of agree with your last comment. The conspiracy theorists who tend to believe in everything without critical thinking and deep effort tend to give the rest of us a bad name and make the general public even less willing to look at such kinds of things, however... I'm not sure that's worse than the general public being so apathetic in the first place, and I'm not sure if that's worse than the predatory actions of the "elite" so to speak though the intentions vary quite a bit! And there's a lot of blame to go around, but... I am reminded of a quote that goes something like... "It's good to be open minded, but no so open minded your brain falls out"... So, yeah... I agree with that. Like so many things in life there appears to be a balance and if you go too far in either direction you can have problems.