Sometimes, thinking just didn’t do any good, didn’t provide any answers. Because for some questions—such as the arbitrariness of life and death durin… - Charles E. Gannon

Besides being grossly unprofessional and misinformed, just why is that a relevant inquiry?

So what you are characterizing as conspiracy is merely an unfortunate coincidence.

And over the many months that followed, as Caine crept through both terrestrial and alien undergrowth on missions to reclaim some of the autonomy humanity had lost, he learned and relearned the prime lesson in common to all the shocks:
That all assumptions, like all plans, or never more than a second away from a catastrophic collision with reality.