joedetective wrote:So should we be worried? I just did a little research and it does sound a little scary. I'm all for bringing the Windsor, Rockefeller, Rochchild and Jay-z dynasties down but I'm just one man. Anyone with me?
I don't know if you really know the real historical context from reading all that junk online.
The Illuminati were an 18th century German intellectual society. The name refers to their study of the philosophy called Enlightenment. Some of those ideas were pseudo scientific and a precursor to psychology. Because of that they were viewed as a challenge to the politcal power of the Catholic Church and the Church of England, although the group was not politcal in nature.
The Illuminati rose to promenance, and become the future model of all kinds of conspiracies because they gained membership by secretly infiltrating and taking over many groups of Freemasons, a similair but much more prominent organization. The freemasons were never really politcal either, but they become the focus and scapegoat for all aristocratic intellectual groups because such groups were key participants in the French Revolution. After that many Royal governments outlawed membership to secret societies fearing that they were all plotting revolutionary conspiracies, even though none of them really were.
In the nineteenth century the Illuminati was reorganised, and due to the war of 1812 and revolutionary uprisings throughout Europe, Anti Freemasonry was reignited at it's peak hsyteria and charged that there was one overaching conspiracy group that was responsible for it all and trying to take over the world. At that time in Russia, which was also undergoing revolutionary upheaval, a text called The Protocals of The Elders of Zion was written and attritbuted to be a much older text written by Jews outlining thier plan to take over the world. Of course it was a fake and written for the purposes of Antisemitic propaganda, but it became part of the World Conspiracy narrative and set the stage for all other future Bank conspiracy theories.
In the 40's this theme was taken up by profacist groups to promote antisemitism and anticommunism. In the 60's it was embraced by the New Age movement and in the nineties it also reflected the UFO fascination and the right wing militia movement, and that is pretty much where it is at today. One of the key proponants of the theory is US right wing conspiracy group called the John Birch Society.
These groups advance this theory because they are paranoid of the idea of an International Government that they think will take away thier rights to practice thier religion, which is usually polygamy, to be racist and to own guns. Litteraly something that no one cares about at all, except for them. That's why they attack usually black and Jewish celebrities and say they are part of the conspiracy. Because the media is evil to them for promoting multiculturalism and modern values.
Not everyone who believes in the Illuminati are racists, some of them are just idiots that are under the cult influence of UFO promoters talking about Alien takeovers, so they can bilk them out of money. Or they are misguided leftists who don't know they are promoting fascists and are ignorant of history, and think that they are being antifascist, like the JFK and World Trade Center Conspiracy people.
TLDR. A benign social group was made a scapegoat for politcal oppression by the monarchy. Then people believed in the myth of a conspiracy group and as the years went on they continued to add every single new social upheaval as being the work of this group that stretched back throughout history, pretty much exclusively to stir up antigovernment fervor and promote white supremacy.
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:30 am
