Conspiracy
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Andre: "OK. Yes, we are bored. We're all bored now. But has it ever occurred to you Wally that the process that creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating, unconscious form of brainwashing, created by a world totalitarian government based on money, and that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks? and it's not just a question of individual survival Wally, but that somebody who's bored is asleep, and somebody who's asleep will not say no?" --My Dinner with Andre |
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A conspiracy is an act of two or more persons, conspirators, working in secret to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations. Etymologically, the term comes from Latin con- "with, together", and spirare "to breathe".
Types of conspiracies
- Conspiracy (civil), an agreement between persons to deceive, mislead, or defraud others of their legal rights, or to gain an unfair advantage
- Conspiracy (criminal), an agreement between persons to break the law in the future, in some cases having committed an act to further that agreement
- Conspiracy (political), the overthrow of a government
See also
- List of conspiracies (political)
- Conspiracy theory
- Furtive
- Intrigue
- Gunpowder Plot
- Paranoid fiction
- Plot
