Conspiracy leads to anti-scientific thinking and a populace without any self-agency. Now no amount of sermonizing or factual evidence will help the conspiratorial fanatic. You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don’t already believe it. For others, who believe this tripe… not so much.
Weaving nonsense from the Kennedy assassination to the deeper and more insidious nature of the Illuminati. Later, they’d send more letters in contradicting what they’d just written and stirring even more intrigue.Įventually, this culminated in the Illuminatus! trilogy, for those in the know it was a fantastic cult classic of top tier satire. Allegedly, Wilson, along with a couple of other writers, began writing fake letters to the magazine to start talking about the elite super-secretive organization called the Illuminati. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.”ĭuring this time, Wilson worked as a writer and editor for Playboy. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. “Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. It wasn’t until some two hundred years later that Robert Anton WIlson would resurrect this run-of-the-mill society and turn it into the conspiracy we know today. Markner explains that the group was pretty unremarkable for its time as there was numerous secret organizations popping up during that era. The original order ceased to exist in 1788 and never really caught on. “The Illuminati managed to recruit quite a large number of influential men - princes and their councillors, high-ranking bureaucrats, university professors and other educators, writers and intellectuals.” According to modern historian Reinhard Markner: The group started in 1776, where they recruited a number of intelligent thinkers into the group. Ironically, the original Illuminati wanted to create a society led by science and reason as opposed to an unexamined religious mentality.
In late 18th century Bavaria, scholar and university professor Adam Weishaupt formed a secret group that sought to follow in line with Enlightenment principles in lieu of the hard-line Jesuit order at the time.
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