Are all conspiracies bad?

The simple answer is no – it’s about context.

Then why does the word “conspiracy” have a bad connotation to it?

I mean, a conspiracy is essentially strategic planning between two or more people done behind closed doors in order to achieve a goal, right?

By that reasoning, most businesses are in a conspiracy.

And all political campaigns are a conspiracy.

Heck, I didn’t realize it.

This blog might be a conspiracy.

There is an unpleasantness in talking about conspiracies, I’ll grant that. Yet conspiracy is a neutral word. It depends on what one does with it. Our tendency to shy away from this truth creates a profound ignorance of how things really work, and what it means to be strategic, to be powerful, and to try to shape events rather than simply be shaped by them.

-Ryan Holiday, Conspiracy