1984 type stuff and conspiricy

The most important thing to know about conspiracy is that in and of itself, it is officially legally term for the crime of mens rea, which means criminal intent. Now conspiracy requires more than one individual, and in and of itself what it consists in is "planning to commit a crime". Some conspiracies are more serious than others, it depends on who the conspirators are and how serious they are. You have to remember when dealing with people who claim to know about a conspiracy, because some of them do, that conspiracy itself is the planning stage. It takes more than one person to conspire, a solo criminal who plans is guilty of malice aforethought, not conspiracy. This doesn't mean that malice aforethought isn't a high crime. Conspiracy is the joining together of more than one person with criminal intent to the same end. The "groupthink" described in Orwell's 1984 was shared mens rea, which is the legal definition of conspiracy. The high tech means by which the conspiracy spread was more than a plot device, but fundamentally, as literature the telescreen in the novel serves to illustrate the propagandistic means by which individual bad faith spreads from central locations, becoming malice aforethought and finally shared mens rea.