Or how about this - what if they are ALL wrong? What if it is the duality itself, the belief that there must be a right/wrong, a good/bad, a truth/lies - what if that in itself is the root of all conflict?
And I'm not talking about a New Age-y kind of "we're all one" mantra with no weight here. I am talking about a concrete realization that our whole existence, spent trying to figure out who or what is good, and who or what is bad, is simply a psychological treadmill they keep us on to prevent us from realizing that ultimately, when it comes right down to the brass tacks, we all want and need the very same things. It's just that they have manufactured, labeled, packaged, distributed and marketed so many different versions of the same things - ideas, beliefs, religions, political systems - that it has become increasingly impossible to see the common source from which it all streams.
I mean, think about how much time we as a species spend defending our beliefs/ideas/philosophy as being the "right one," while at the same time spending time/money/lives trying to destroy or discredit those who are "wrong." Think about this for a minute : if there were 3 islands in the middle of a great ocean, each island had people who followed their own distinct religion, and none of the people from any of the islands could ever leave or interact with anyone from any of the other islands, would not all the people on each of them, all with different religions, believe wholeheartedly that surely, theirs must be THE true religion, even if it was the only one they knew of?
It would only be when meeting people from the other islands that the arguments would start, over whose is "right" and whose is "wrong." But why would one have to be right, and the other wrong? Could there not be truths that were evident in both/all of the religions? And if, instead of focusing on the differences and trying to convince the others that ours was the 'true' religion, we instead let them believe as they wish respectfully, and tried to find the commonalities in both, might we not be able to find, or create even a NEW religion that is a blend of the best of both? And would not THAT religion be closer to any truth their might be, having taken the best of what was there to make something new?
Of course, this would require us all to be very open-minded, to lay down all our prejudices and preconceptions and be willing to look at things anew. And sadly, I think that as a species, we are so addicted to conflict, pride and ego, that it seems nearly impossible that anything like this could ever happen.
However, there are people out there, and it seems a growing number of them, who could and would willingly participate in such a discussion to discover a new Truth. But the Illuminati, God, the devil, the liberals, the conservatives, the good and the bad, they all have us too busy defending "our beliefs" to be able to spend even a necessary moment contemplating whether or not we are so sure that what we are putting our belief in is THE truth. As long as it feels right, and it's what we're used to, what we identify as, that's good enough for us.
And though they would NEVER admit it (most likely they wouldn't anyway), it is fear more than anything that motivates people to do what they do, to not do what they won't do, and to avoid opening themselves to something new. And THAT - instilling FEAR - is what our current system, all of it, is sooooo good at. Fear of God, fear of the Godless, fear of Muslims, Jews, Christians, fear of the government, fear of the conspiracy theorists, fear of - you get the idea. Pick a side, and let the game begin! Because in the end, as long as we keep playing the game, failing to realize that there ARE NO WINNERS as long as we keep playing, we all lose. And "they," whoever they are, know that - they always have.