Yes! The obvious explanation is always obvious and usually correct to a certain level of understanding, however when we watch a magic trick or when we are fooled by a ponzi scheme we don't like the feeling of being fooled so we enter into what is currently called Cognitive Dissonance, a feeling so disturbing that we will manufacture false realities or ignore the obvious possible truths to dissolve the psychological pain.

Knowing this, Think Tanks advise their overlords to use this against the masses by employing PsyWarOps in the form of Hegelian Dialectics, a trope popularized by Karl Marx.

Knowing this certain members of the masses retaliate with monkeywrenching in the form of QAnon type con-theories. Of course the Overlords will launch their own Q-Ops against the masses in a double back triple lindy type scenario where KAOS is their buddy.

When we all become aware of this then we can start to hunt down and eradicate the entities responsible for the manipulation of all humanity... which might just not be human but that's another story.

History is not random. War is good business.