Adrian: There is another way to look at this. Everybody loves a puzzle – I get that. Everybody loves the secret word that solves everything, but let’s not call conspiracy something that could ...

Weaponized incompetence is what happens when someone doesn't want to do something (whether because they find it boring, meaningless, or unpleasant) and they pretend like they don't know how to do ...

It is precisely this form of weaponised incompetence that Douglas Adams satirises in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, when plans for the destruction of the protagonist’s home are on ...