Yes, so at what level does this exist? Is it the city trashman who is employed by city government? By working in that capacity he automatically becomes a liar and is covering up massive secrets? No? So at what level do these government workers start hiding these massive secret agendas and conspiracies? Is it the seaman 3rd class or whatever on a ship? Is it the lieutenant? Is it the postal workers? Exactly where does this start and who is "in" on it?

This simply goes back to the beginning, where we have a traumatic event that is fairly unprecedented. It's not going to "make sense" or be "emotionally satisfying". You don't like that there's not some easy way to assign the blame for it, so your mind has made up/bought into incredible stories that seem to make more "sense". This isn't "sense" according to actual fact/evidence, it's "sense" due to emotion and what "feels" right. This is a natural human defense mechanism, as it allows us to continue operating in stressful situations, but that doesn't mean that the story our minds have assigned is "real".

I work in the government and it's amazing how many people within our own organizations feel that there's some wild conspiracy going on "out there, somewhere". It's not the conspiracy theory specifically, it's that WE are the ones that would be in on it, not some mythical entity or "other people". "Our" organization is filled with god-fearing patriots, but everyone else is trying to destroy everything! For some there is little realization that "we" are the ones responsible for these impressions and that the "system" has effects that are perceived as some sort of massive conspiracy or someone in command that is making "all the decisions", and it's the same from organization to organization. It comes down to individual people and their assigned areas of responsibility, accountable to their managers. It's not a bunch of people carrying out some crazy manifesto that certain people are "in" on and the rest are told to "shut up and don't ask questions". That's what some people perceive for some reason. If that was really the way it was, it wouldn't last long.