I would guess it is non-conscious, that the spread of religious myths, including statism, is a result of memes finding niches in genetic bias, such as survival instincts, and that the idea of conspiracies is a mythologization in itself, ascribing intent and agency to actors that are, just, laws of nature. Individual events do have conscious actors, but the myths outlive their brief life span, and as memes are inherited without filtration and also imitated back and forth, and mutate, the result is far more complex than any single individual actor. The tendency to ascribe intent is also a cognitive fallacy, theory of mind.

Wrote about that here,
https://steemit.com/cybernetics/@johan-nygren/using-memetics-to-inquire-what-has-been-the-religion-of-the-20th-century