me: you should read this book The Diamond Age me: you're probably too wrapped up in certain aspects of the world that, while important and secret to most people, probably will come to matter less as ongoing history gets more complicated and bizarre and otherwise unpredictable me: it's only a blip in history that certain parties are manipulating certain events for certain ends me: they'll be superseded by a thousand little groups in near future me: conspiracies are getting easier me: 50 years from now, you'll long for the good old days when a centralized group pulled such things as 9/11 on the sly