The 5G conspiracy is part of a sprawling web of interlinked contemporary conspiracies including vaccine hesitancy, anti-semitism, techno-mind-control, chemtrails, political paedophile rings, a perfidious deep-state and a militarized corporate complex. It is a cultural gestalt where each component part props up the whole, disguising the frailties of each constituent element. Caused by declining social mobility, compounded by a de-emphasis on education, inflamed for political ambition, validated by corporate greed and facilitated by social media, conspiracy theories have become the religion of the Internet.