Is There Really No Master Plan?

I always jokingly answer conspiracy theories of the Trilateral Commission or DaVinci Code or alien autopsy ilk by saying: "I wish it worked that well." While, from the distant outside one can spin up deep state organization ideas based on an elaborate arrangement of certain facts aided by fantasies, once you go inside and see how it works, you realize that they -- be it government or business or media -- are like the rest of us, just making it up as they go along.

Well, I guess I too have succumbed in a small way to belief in some hidden, greater knowledge and power. In my case, it was Warren Buffet's continuing purchase of small market newspapers. Why, I wondered, would he do it? This, after all, is the Wizard of Omaha, the man who made billions on his savvy business sense. While everyone else was beginning to arrange the funeral for newspapers, why would he invest so heavily in them? Surely he knows something we don't.

Now, Bloomburg has a piece suggesting ... well, that they wish it worked so well. They seem to think he's just emotionally attached to the idea of a local paper. No ambitious scheme, like Jeff Bezos seems to have for The Washington Post, no deep understanding of something the rest of us don't see, just fond memories of being a paperboy.

Now I'll just have to go back to awaiting a miraculous salvation ...

Addendum

Apparently I'm not the only one who has thought of this:

"In the words of the Joker in 'The Dark Knight,' 'Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plan is horrifying.' But what if there is no plan? What if everybody is just bad at everything? What if the adults who run the most important institutions in the country were the children who picked their noses and put the boogers under the desks in school?"