It’s humbling to just accept that shit happens. Our inability to be humble in that way explains, in large part, conspiracy theories. We project our lack of humility onto the world. A popular president is offed and we just don’t feel right about a world where somebody as cool and powerful as JFK can fall before a nobody like Lee Harvey Oswald because then it would be clear that — shit happens. And shit can happen even to famous and powerful people in fact they attract a certain sort of shit unlikely to be splattered on mere mortals.

Note to conspiracy theorists: take it somewhere else, I’m not interested.