And here the biggest road-block for any kind of meaningful discourse on these matters presents itself: the No Man's Land where theory, speculation, belief and delusion intersect. Something everyone who visits this site should know/acknowledge is that many of the ideas/opinions expressed appeal to madness. I'm not saying 'everyone who believes in this stuff is crazy!' by any stretch; I personally, in spite of being an atheist and a general skeptic, can't ignore the obvious ideological patterns forming in our media, and am willing to entertain and explore the idea that this is the intentional work of moguls caught up in some twisted belief-system/pseudo-religious 'Old Boy's Club', even to the extent that there may well be some dark cabal of Satanistic scumbags in charge (really, how else does one explain BRATZ dolls?)
That said, when someone develops a real, debilitating psychosis, whether as a result of a strong manic-phase from someone with Bi-Polar disorder or conditions such as schizophrenia, their minds reach and grope for any explanation that can make sense of what they're feeling, typically through an adversarial force. They go to the internet, and the first grand enough explanation they find that accounts for their feelings/experiences and acknowledges them as real BECOMES their reality. I watched this process, to my great sadness, unfold with a client of mine- who, due to undiagnosed illness, went from a reasonable, self-sufficient single mother to a forced resident of our local psychiatric hospital. She began hearing voices, experiencing hallucinations, was receiving text-messages from her stillborn son, really horrible, horrible stuff... and explaining this all to herself as a coordinated effort of the Illuminati and Aliens. When I went to visit her, she begged me to contact a 'Dr. Greers' so she could join his research team several times while in-hospital, 'Greers' I later learned being a YouTube Alien theorist.
I'm not implying everyone on here expressing 'out there' opinions is psychotic/mentally ill or anything of the sort. I'm just saying we have to be aware of and consider the simple fact that, when discussing issues on the fringes of mainstream thought, a bit of crazy will forever find its way into the discourse. We shouldn't judge or rail against it too harshly, but we also should be careful not to let it take the reins... or else we're all just blowing bubbles against brick walls.