if you're suggesting we're a set of individuals who actually question what's going on around us, then yes. this is not necessarily ego based but I do see your point.
isn't it just as big of an ego trip to put off "conspiracies" (though much of what i'm talking about is pure fact, e.g. Fast and Furious) blindly because your ego believes no such thing can ever happen to our country or we're just paranoid or because the social quo says your a nutcase if you believe there is corruption? That's the biggest ego trip of all.