Overheard

Most of the people who are addicted to conspiracy fantasies are driven by an immature self-regard. They think they deserve something better than reality. They think they're entitled to a much more exciting world than the actual one - a world in which they're smart and right.

You want a real world Hydra, so you can be the real world hero who defeats it? Who doesn't? That dream is so much more exciting and addressable than reality, which is mostly long stretches of tedium punctuated by crises in which most of the players are too busy covering their own asses - too busy weaponizing one of their own fuckups in order to deflect your outrage away from themselves and onto any of their preferred targets.

That's the grown up world, not the comic book universe these nonsense-worshippers are trying to make it. There is no SPECTRE, no SMERSH, no Global Jewish Cabal. And actually, the closest we get to a worldwide network of evildoers is the relatively small group of power-mad wannabe-conquerors who the conspiracy-driven meatheads are ultimately serving by chasing every stupid fantasy deeper and deeper into an endless rabbit warren of lies and delusion.

They're fighting the monsters of their own id.

hat tip = @AndyRichter