Conspiracy Times believes there is a global conspiracy out there, and it is one to enslave Mankind in eternal fear. Hence, we live in conspiracy times, and Conspiracy Times reports on this campaign of fear.

In a report titled The First Global Revolution (1991) published by the Club of Rome, a globalist think tank whose members have included leading American politicians such as Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and Al Gore, we find the following statement: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. [...] All these dangers are caused by human intervention. [...] The real enemy, then, is humanity itself." Please note the opening sentence: "in searching for a new enemy to unite us..."
The "global warming" that is currently winning Nobel Peace Prizes is therefore a rather interesting phenomenon. And if it were to be a hoax, in the past, the Club of Rome has already resorted to deceptive tactics in order to support their plans.
In 1972, the Club of Rome, along with an MIT team, released a report called Limits to Growth. The report stated that we were to reach an environmental holocaust by the year 2000, due to overpopulation and other environmental problems. Support for their conclusions was gathered by results from a computer model. Aurelio Peccei, one of the founders of the Club of Rome, later confessed that the computer program had been written to give the desired results. Similar allegations have been made about global warming, and other scares.

Since World War II, the world has been subjected to a continuous series of messages of imminent doom. First, there were the Communists, who were allegedly set on world domination and could trigger the extinction of life on Earth.
When the Iron Curtain rusted in the early 1990s, a new enemy was needed; a quick succession of candidates included the threat of an alien invasion, or a meteor strike that might kill millions and pull the rest of Mankind back to the Stone Age.
With the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, a new enemy and war was created: the War on Terror. Taken straight out of George Orwell's novel 1984, this time, the enemy was not only out there, but also hiding amongst us, as was "in evidence" during the July 7, 2005 London bomb attacks.
In recent years, as the propaganda of Osama bin Laden hiding in a cave and "Weapons of Mass Destruction" that formed the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq began to disintegrate, a new "global threat" magically appeared: global warming.

Apart from large-scale conspiracies aimed at keeping Mankind in fear, various people operate within individual belief systems of doom and gloom, often linked with salvation and a sense that "they" are the Chosen few. Religious fundamentalism, both within the Muslim but especially Christian world, and specifically the desire or fear of an upcoming Apocalypse, is a key ingredient in this mindset.

An interesting mixture of self-imprisonment and governmental dominance is the idea of Big Brother, in which the authorities often do go out of their way to instil fear into citizens by voting into law draconian measures for the smallest of offences. Even though these powers are seldom used, they are often held in front of the nation as a display of how powerful Big Brother has become.

Today, everyday "Reality" has therefore become a highly artificially created construct. The relationship between the individual and authority is often one of a careful balance, in which the above mechanism is a series of check and balances to steer the individual in the "right" direction.
Whereas the individual is eternally longing for a paradigm change, if not shift, governments are either unable or unwilling to bring about such positive change (often heralded in their election manifestos).
Several governments, in fact, have had to resort to false flag operations, whereby events - often terror attacks - are staged or false information is made public, so as to move the population in the prescribed direction, conform to the desires or needs of the government, which is often - and in this case rightfully - perceived as Big Brother.