says ">But conspiracies don't work because the world isn't that predictable.<"

Agreed but that doesn't prevent people from trying to instigate conspiracies. After all, Prometheus caused blind hopes to live in the hearts of men.

- Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/prometheus.html

An extract seems appropriate here:

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PROMETHEUS: I took from man expectancy of death.

CHORUS: What medicine found'st thou for this malady?

PROMETHEUS: I planted blind hope in the heart of him.

CHORUS: A mighty boon thou gavest there to man.

PROMETHEUS: Moreover, I conferred the gift of fire.

CHORUS: And have frail mortals now the flame-bright fire?

PROMETHEUS: Yea, and shall master many arts thereby.

CHORUS: And Zeus with such misfeasance charging thee-

PROMETHEUS: Torments me with extremity of woe.

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