First Post In A Long Time- Them

     Looking at my blog it looks like the last time I posted was September. I've been thinking about something lately though so here goes:
     I'm pretty conscious in life of trying not to use the phrase "them". People do it a lot when referring to the management of companies we work for and interact with, the government at various levels etc. The truth is though there really isn't a them, just a collection of people. "Them" comes up a lot with conspiracy theories. They are trying to screw us or plotting something etc. However recently I've come to believe that they and their conspiracy theories don't exist. We all go through life interacting with people and realize there are very different skill sets and levels of competency among individuals and then among collective groups of individuals. What I've been thinking about lately is that them is just a group of individuals some competent and some not. The conspiracies for the most part I think are the result of people of various levels of competency being put in positions where they are making it up as they go along. The result is what we think is a great conspiracy. There is a great quote that sums this up: "never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence".