Political view : Secret Societies
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008Many people look at the state of the world and come to the understandable conclusion that they must be missing something. After all, no rational person would make the decisions some world leaders make… unless, of course, they have a hidden agenda that we don’t know about.
So whose agenda is it, anyway? Some favorite contenders include:
- Freemasonry
- Skull and Bones
- Trilateral Commission
- Bilderberg Group
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Muslim Brotherhood
Some of the aforementioned examples are pretty dicey, others are very well documented. Throughout history, small groups of intelligentsia have banded together for the sake of instigating political change.
The Carbonari in Italy, a derivative of the Masons, helped forment revolution in the 19th century. Edelweiss, a European group, advanced a pro-Nordic racial agenda and produced such illustrious members as Hermann Goering. Thule Gelleschaft, an occultish group of the day, reputedly inspired Hitler to adopt the swastika as the Nazi emblem.
A Russian group, Land and Liberty, used terrorism and assassination to lay the groundwork for revolution. Formally known as the Fists of Righteous Harmony, the Boxers began as a small Chinese nationalist society toward the end of the 19th century before swelling to incredible size, embarking on a reign of terror against foreigners and subsequently getting slaughtered by the U.S. Navy.
There’s plenty of evidence to show that secret societies have formed to accomplish specific political goals, but those groups that don’t get killed in the process tend to fade away after the immediate political crisis is resolved.
The idea that a secret society might be running the world can be appealing. It offers the possibility that every stupid, pointless thing done by world leaders might actually be smart and pointful, part of some sort of plan. However, it doesn’t take much live experience to realize that individual people are generally stupid and pointless, and Occam’s Razor tells us the simplest explanation is most often correct.
Nevertheless, people will talk. If all the above secret societies aren’t enough to satisfy your paranoid tendencies, you can always look into “The Octopus” — an uber-secret society which purportedly links all of the other secret societies in one vast conspiracy to control the world.
The Octopus was first tenatively identified by a freelance investigative reporter named Danny Casolaro, who believed it linked such conspiracies as Iran-Contra, BCCI, INSLAW to such government agencies as the CIA, FBI and the NSA.
Casolaro turned up dead due to an extremely suspicious “suicide” in 1991. His story (or rather, a wildly imaginative telling of his story) has made him a martyr to the conspiracy crowd.
Some political secret societies eventually metamorphose into criminal organizations, such as the Mafia, the Japanese Yakuza and the Chinese Triads. You can also make a case that race-based hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan were also working from a political mindset, at least in their formative years.
