The term Illuminati starts with Adam Weishaupt, a Bavarian who founded and organization in 1776 called the Perfectibilists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Weishaupt
The original intent was to form a New World Order free of monachies and to shape the future of political thought in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Weishaupt
Debates about Weishaupt and his organization’s continued survival continue to this day. Most people who know about it place it dutifully the term in the conspiracy theory category of tin foil hattery.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
The basis of the word Illuminati means the belief that world events, governments, businesses, medicine and science are influenced by a myriad of organizations working in a co-ordinated effort. Kind of like the Matrix movie series “normal” people simply dismiss the matter as something far too grandious a scheme to ever be real. Well I refer again to my tin foil hat link and thousands of easily searchable web pages on the subjects. Webster Tarpley, John Coleman and Wes Penre are several authors on New World Order and the Illuminati.
http://www.svpvril.com/nwo.html
My observations were only arrived at by an ex-pat assignement and the completion of a business degree.
Embrace the concept, even the possibilty that an organized elite bunch of powerful men organized over generations might affect world events. Have we not moved to a more globalized world? Are organizations like the CFR, world bank, WTO gaining power which superceeds nations? Has John Edwards not spent much of his time sucking up to organizations with global agendas?
http://www.cremationofcare.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
http://www.thegeorgiaguidestones.com/Message.htm
The subject is even in German.
http://www.das-gibts-doch-nicht.info/frame1.php
So in short I look above left and right politically. The Olberman’s and the Bill OReilley’s of the world are all foolish, merely puppets dancing on the strings of their masters.
The last six years though I think has and will continue to garner interest in the subject as the US decends further into someplace more in line with Communist China.
Don’t buy it, but an analysis based upon this concept makes far more sense than an entire nation basing it’s politcal arguments based upon a mental age of twelve!
http://coleman300.com/
My problem with your constant references to the Illuminati is that it doesn’t explain anything.
I grew up in Princeton, where many of my friends worked at Eating Clubs. The Eating Clubs at Princeton are similar to the secret societies at Yale. They don’t have the same secret initiation ceremonies, but they do function as a conduit of elitism.
The Ivy Club in particular has who’s who list of accomplished and powerful alumni.
If there is such a thing as the Illuminati, The Ivy Club is one of their organizations. And, yet, if you were to spend one weekend getting drunk with those idiots you would quickly discover how bankrupt any such theory really is.
These kids are not part of some secret plot to rule the world. They know they have to keep sober enough to graduate and that job at Citibank is waiting for them. But they’re more interested in going to concerts, scoring some blow, and getting laid than they are with world domination.
It’s all very mundane. Yet, they operate in a relatively closed circle of friends. There was a documentary a few years ago about the children of the superrich. It also demonstrated how banal an empty their existence is.
Yes, these kids will go on to run people the State Department, the CIA, and become U.S. Senators. But they will do so without any masterplan.
As with any other theory, its value rests with its explanatory power. The term Illuminati explains very little.
Their banality and lives devoid of any good redeeming quality would serve the purpose well then. Like you said these people do go on to run things and make up policy for the rest of us, hence the assholianism of today. Wonkette does an excellent job with the devoid of human soul these people have.
Their shallow existence would make them what? Easily influenced given the correct provocations from people we know absolutely nothing about.
Yes I incorrectly use the term Illuminati just as I use the theme Lasthorseman in the futile attempt to get people to think beyond the ten second soundbytes media is training them to.
The study of things “Illuminati” related and all of it’s “conspiracy” does however encourage some very unconventional thought and that is something “They” wish not to encourage. Imagine if you had the majority of Americans tomorrow stop taking their allopathic prescriptions and opted for natural cures, big pharma would have a cow.
Illuminati does not explain anything. Yes one can not explain something to people who will not believe.
they are not devoid of any redeeming quality. If they have a fault, it is their easy willingness to accept a system that thinks their is nothing morally dubious about crushing the nuts of anyone that makes their fathers’ uncomfortable.
if l follow your description and de facto definition of the, shall we say, elites, boo; they are shallow, callous, uncaring, isolated, narcissistic thugs, devoid of any sense of ethics, morals or empathy, suffering from an over-dose of extreme prejudice for anything or anyone not part of their myopic world view, as well as possessing a massively overwhelming sense of entitlement.
perhaps we…the inclusive v….could agree that there is already a word for that: republicans, or maybe a more inclusive term would be plutocrats, or oligarchists, which would conveniently provide for the inclusion of all politicians, from both sides of the aisle.
the end result of their influence and, by all appearances, stranglehold on the reins of power, has, to date, manifested itself as a form of soft fascism. sustained, and nurtured, in no small measure, by both “political parties”.
if you can find a redeeming quality in there, l’d be interested to know what it is, because l don’t see it, and the continution of the status quo is not a viable option.
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no, they aren’t that bad. They definitely have a sense of entitlement. And they are as narcissistic as any other American college students…just with more money to engage their habits.
They’re fairly normal people, actually. They have more chances to screw up, and they often take them.
And when they finally land on their feet with a cushy job, they’re prepared to do things like support a coup in Venezuela for no better reason than Chavez is bad for business.
But it ain’t a conspiracy…it just works out like that.
l didn’t say anything about a conspiracy, and in fact, don’t subscribe to such theories as the illumaniti, and tri-lateral commissions, etc.
the elitists are a big part of the problem, and the cycle needs to be broken, and l don’t know how to accomplish that.
have to run, but this is an interesting concept once you get beyond the tin foil.
later
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