Dacia Iluministă

The Illuminati’s religion is the most highly developed expression of Gnosticism and is called Illumination (alternatively, Illuminism). Dedicated to the pursuit of enlightenment, it has many parallels with the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. It rejects the Abrahamic religions of faith: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, considering these the work of the “Demiurge”; an inferior, cruel and wicked deity who deludes himself that he is the True God, and who has inflicted endless horrors on humanity.

If you wish to judge for yourself how deranged the Demiurge is, you need only read the Old Testament, the story of the Demiurge’s involvement with his “Chosen People”, the Hebrews. You may wonder why the “God of All” entered into an exclusive and partisan Covenant with a tribe in the Middle East several thousand years ago, why he promised them a land (Canaan) that belonged to others, and why he then actively participated with them in a genocidal war against the Canaanites. Even more bizarrely, according to Christian theology, he then dispatched all of those Hebrews, whom he had supported so fanatically, to Limbo – the edge of Hell – when they died. They couldn’t go to Heaven because they were indelibly marked by the “Original Sin” of Adam and Eve. Only the atonement provided by the agonising death of God’s “son”, Jesus Christ, could wipe the slate clean and allow the Hebrews to be released from Limbo. But there was a catch. Only those who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour were eligible for Paradise.

Of course, the Chosen People of “God” have almost entirely rejected Jesus Christ. Therefore, from the Christian perspective, nearly all of the Chosen People are now in hell proper. Don’t you find God’s behaviour distinctly odd? Indeed, unbelievable? Don’t alarm bells start ringing? Doesn’t the behaviour of this God sound rather more like what would be expected of Satan?

Remember that this same “God” ordered Abraham to perform human sacrifice on his own son, Isaac. Abraham, rather than rejecting this monstrous command, rather than denouncing the creature that gave it as evil incarnate, agreed to butcher his own flesh and blood to demonstrate how slavishly and mindlessly obedient he was – the prototype of all psychopathic, fanatical “believers”.

Does God’s command to Abraham sound like something that would ever pass the lips of the True God? We pity you if you think it does because you are surely a creature of the Demiurge and one of the legions of the damned. If, however, you doubt the credentials of the Abrahamic God, you may be receptive to the message of the Illuminati and our future-oriented, rational, scientific, mathematical and dialectical religion of light – Illumination.
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Quotation:

The McGuffin:

“It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. One man says, ‘What’s that package up there in the baggage rack?’ and the other answers, ‘Oh that’s a McGuffin.’ The first one asks, ‘What’s a McGuffin?’ ‘Well,’ the other man says, ‘it’s an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands’. The first man says, ‘But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands’, and the other one answers, ‘Well, then that’s no McGuffin!’ So you see, a McGuffin is nothing at all.” –Alfred Hitchcock
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Inside-Dopesters:

Sociologist David Riesman defined an “inside-dopester” as a social type whose goal was “never to be taken in by any person, cause or event.” All conspiracy theorists are inside-dopesters. They have a pathological desire not to be fooled and that, of course, means they are the easiest people on earth to fool – as David Icke and other conspiracy theorist gurus prove every day with the deranged theories they peddle. No sane person could take the proposition of reptilian, shape-shifting Illuminati seriously, yet conspiracy theorists lap it up. They think they’ll be able to spot a reptilian a mile off! No one will ever take them by surprise… so they imagine.

Nietzsche said, “All things are subject to interpretation. Whatever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” Conspiracy theorists have no interest at all in the truth.

However, they are obsessed with feeling powerful – usually because they are so powerless in their everyday lives. In conspiracy theory land, they are masters of the universe, experts and geniuses, better than any PhDs.

It’s pointless trying to reason with them. They have long since departed the rational world. Anyone who agrees with them is telling the truth and anyone who disagrees with them is a liar and part of the conspiracy. This is exactly the way that Muslims think about the Koran: you’re going to hell if you reject the Koran and heaven if you agree with it. There’s no scope whatever for challenging the Koran, just as conspiracy theorists never subject their own theories to any criticism.

The conspiracy theorists call themselves “Truthers” but they are nothing but liars and, worst of all, they lie to themselves. They have no intellectual integrity or honesty and no respect for expert opinions and decades of experience (unless the expert opinions coincide with their own).

Their greatest obsession is 9/11 – the inside job that never was. All “Truthers” inhabit a world of supreme delusion and arrogance where they consider it impossible that anyone could successfully attack America other than Americans themselves. They think that America is loved all around the world and that Muslims would never be motivated to attack the “Great Satan.” Their ignorance of international affairs and Islam is spectacular. They have no interest in researching Islamic Jihad because it doesn’t tie in with their conviction that 9/11 was the ultimate act of American treachery. Not once do the Truthers contemplate that there might be legions of Muslims that detest the infidel Americans and maybe 19 fanatical Muslims really did hijack four planes and use them as suicide weapons to achieve personal martyrdom and avenge the Muslims in Palestine and all across the world who are the victims of Zionist-American foreign policy. Conspiracy Theories: A New Religion?

“Do you think it [the full moon] brings the crazies out?”

“They’re always out.”

(Clint Eastwood, Tightrope)

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” –Søren Kierkegaard

“Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.” –Jean Baudrillard

Have conspiracy theories become a new religion, providing the wonders and wow factor that were once the sole province of conventional religion?

Baudrillard tells us that we’ve entered hyperreality, sometimes defined as the more real than real. It seems an odd concept, yet perhaps we can find a good illustration in the proliferation of conspiracy theories in the last few decades.

“RL” – Real Life – is often associated with accidents, cock-ups, laziness, ineptitude, bad luck, unforeseen circumstances, unintended consequences, coincidences…a miasma of mess, muddle, disorder, chaos, unconnectedness, the fog of war. Cause and effect exist, but not in a simple, satisfying way.

People dislike the unadorned real. They’re always looking for patterns that make sense: easy-to-understand cause and effect. Even when they look at the clouds, they imagine they’re seeing definite shapes (like faces or animals) rather than amorphous blobs. They can’t help ourselves – human minds are wired that way. When they can’t find obvious cause and effect, they’re left baffled. Even distressed.

But their anxiety is relatively easy to cure. They simply invent an appropriate cause and effect and impose it on the problematic situation. The more cause and effect they can cram in, the happier they are. They feel they are understanding the world. They resist the notion that the truth, in a form they can grasp, is not out there. There must be some comprehensible pattern of cause and effect that explains everything.

Enter conspiracy theories. Nothing’s an accident. Nothing’s a cock-up. There are no lone nutters with high-powered rifles. Mad people don’t do mad things. Instead, everything is rationalised, put in a nice, tidy box and tied up in a lovely pink bow. The gift-wrapped parcel is presented to the world and everyone nods and smiles because now the world makes sense. Sanity restored. Everything does have a sensible cause.

Of course, there may be many inconvenient facts that don’t support the various conspiracy theories. But isn’t it those who are in on the conspiracy who manufacture those “facts”? Six million died in the Holocaust. “Who says?” the Holocaust deniers ask. “Jews say,” is their answer. Why? Why, to promote a Zionist agenda, of course. And aren’t the Jews secretly controlling the world? Weren’t we told so in the secret protocols of the elders of Zion? Those were forged, of course. But by whom? Well, by the elders of Zion, naturally, to cunningly disguise the truth. The best fake is the fake that isn’t faked at all. Or the truth faked to look fake.

To tell the truth of the “Jewish conspiracy” is, according to the Holocaust deniers, to be accused of believing in a “proven” forgery, which was not forged at all, but deliberately distributed as a simulated forgery.

Nowadays, no one can ever discuss the “Jewish conspiracy” for fear of being branded anti-Semitic, and credulously and perversely accepting forgeries…which was the whole point of the forgery in the first place. Except, as noted, it wasn’t a forgery, but merely a simulacrum of a forgery. The genius behind this conspiracy!

Well, that’s how some people see it, and there’s nothing you can say or do to change their minds. And even to try is to demonstrate that you’re part of the conspiracy. There are those who claim that facts can dispel conspiracy theories. What planet are these people living on? As Nietzsche said, “There are no facts, only interpretations.” He might have come up with an even more extreme formulation: “There are no facts, only misinterpretations.”

Facts have long since stopped being objective, real things. (They are ultimately nothing but electrical signals in the human brain in any case, assuming we accept the facts of science.) Facts, we now realise, are beliefs. They can be used to support anything. People hold religious beliefs precisely because “facts” are so malleable. You can pick your own from all those on offer, the ultimate pick ‘n’ mix. You can disregard every fact you dislike. It’s a precondition of faith. (Was Jesus Christ the Son of God? Or the Son of Man? Did he raise people from the dead, and rise from the dead himself? Are these facts? Or was Jesus Christ actually Yehoshua ben Yosef, and didn’t perform any miracles, and was an ordinary human being? Did he even exist? Is King Arthur any less real than Jesus Christ?)

Conspiracy theories operate in the same territory. These are belief systems too. Nothing can overcome them. Indeed, it’s a prediction of Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory that the more conclusively people’s beliefs are refuted, the more likely many of those people are to redouble their faith in their disproven beliefs.

You see, it’s all hyperreal. Conspiracy theories, like religions, offer much more emotionally satisfying explanations. They close the big, scary, open-ended questions. Who, other than rational people, wants to believe that a drunk driver in a Paris tunnel killed Diana Spencer in a mundane car accident? Her followers won’t accept that. Their precious princess couldn’t possibly have died in such humdrum fashion like all the plebs. So all hail the elaborate conspiracy theory.

Diana died for specific reasons, for a rational agenda – not because of some cheap and vulgar automobile accident of the type that happens scores of times a day all over the world. No, that simply won’t do. We can’t have that. The world does not operate like that. Gods and goddesses must have divine deaths. Even in death, they must transcend the herd.

The dinosaur thinkers who write books “disproving” conspiracy theories had better get real. Or rather hyperreal. Their ludicrous facts became extinct long ago, assuming they ever existed in the first place (which they didn’t.) There’s no point in discussing the truth or otherwise of conspiracy theories. It’s as futile as trying to disprove religions.

Religious believers often say, “But you can’t prove that God doesn’t exist.” They never tell you what they would accept as proof. And in fact, they would accept nothing. They can’t conceive of disproof of their beliefs. They can’t acknowledge that they may be WRONG. Same game with the conspiracy theorists.

Of course, we’re all familiar with the very first human conspiracy – when the first woman talked the first man into stealing an apple from a special tree: the Tree of Knowledge. The facts never got in the way of that conspiracy, did they?

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it’s a joke.” –Søren Kierkegaard
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Narcissism:

We often receive messages from people who believe that they are the “Chosen One” and that we should be offering them our assistance.

Sorry to disillusion these people, but we are not advocates of Chosen Ones. The world has had quite enough Messiahs. In any case, they always arrive too late:

The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last. –Kafka

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No one’s coming to save the world. Not Jesus Christ, not anyone. If the world is going to be saved then it’s our collective responsibility, no one else’s. The very act of believing in a Saviour is a disgrace. It’s cowardice and laziness, an abdication of our personal obligations.

The logic of our central theme of “becoming God” is that each of us must don the divine mantle. Salvation is our business – each of us, individually – not someone else’s. It’s time to be active, not passive.

It’s time to make things happen: not sit back and wait for others. It’s time to create our own “Rapture”, not pray to someone else to make it happen. We have to stop being alienated from our divine spark. It’s time to burnish it and let it illuminate the world.

There’s no point in waiting for Godot. He never arrives. That’s the whole point. In Dante’s Limbo, the Ignavi are always waiting. Their crime in life was that they preferred to wait until everything was decided rather than commit themselves to a cause when its prospects were uncertain, and now they are condemned to wait forever in the vestibule of hell. Anyone can jump on a bandwagon. The heroes are those who got involved long before the bandwagon arrived. You have to find a cause and commit yourself fully. That’s the first step in giving meaning to your life.

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder has become an epidemic in our society. Legions of people think they are Reality TV stars in the making. Facebook is full of photographs capturing every moment in our “wonderful lives”. Facebook isn’t full of philosophy, art, science, activism, political debate and a spiritual yearning for God. Instead, it’s a global cyber-shrine to vanity, trivia and narcissism. People sit for hours on end staring at pictures and videos of their friends and family, and, above all, of themselves. They are all, like Narcissus himself, perpetually staring at their own reflection, their eternal image, incapable of dragging themselves away. Facebook is the ultimate “vanity project”, a monument to egotism. The “image” has become all pervasive. The Society of the Spectacle is upon us. Our lives are mediated by images. The book – the word – is dying. The Old World Order (OWO), the privileged Elite that have always ruled us, use images to brainwash us. We are bombarded by hyperreal images of airbrushed and digitally enhanced “perfect” celebrities.

Everyone is caught on the treadmill of trying to live up to this perfection, and everyone is failing, so rates of depression are increasing. Everyone yearns for perfect friends and partners. Reality is no longer good enough. In this hyperreal age, reality is inevitably a disappointment. So, we pay top dollar to escape from reality. Women, in particular, spend a fortune on the “beauty” industry. What is the practical effect of this industry? – to make every woman on earth feel ugly if she is not plastered with beauty products. What is the other effect – to place vast amounts of money in the hands of those who control the beauty industry (or should that be the Ugly Business)?

Those who control the use and symbolic meaning of images, control our lives. They can make a fortune from us. They can shape society. They can impose their model of society on us.

We have to escape from the tyranny of image (and brand), in all of its manifestations. The advertising industry is one of the most sinister on earth because its sole purpose is to “persuade” us, through the use of overpoweringly seductive images, to do the bidding of the advertisers’ rich and powerful clients.

How to fight back? We need an Imagery of Subversion – images that undermine and subvert the images foisted upon us by the OWO. We need a Society of the Anti-Brand. Then the OWO will no longer be able to “brand” us with the lurid symbols of their mind control.

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Another type of message we get is from those who seek to show that they are cleverer than we are.

Here’s an example from “Barry”:

And to those who say beware of movements? What say you?

You have asked us to withhold questions until completion of the site…this in itself is a contradiction…a site, like god, is never complete…it is always becoming. What say you, M?

As for your glaring “9-11” (or is it 11-9?) contradiction (Zeitgeist demolition theory vs multiple simultaneous cells of brilliant Saudi boxcutter pilots???)…c’mon dudes. Is this one more thing yet to be revealed in “the final cut”? Or am I just supposed to ‘get it’?

yours sincerely,
the barry movement
beware

We’re not a debating society, so we normally ignore such messages. Also, the message is not intended to be constructive. The fact that “Barry” has made the effort to send us a message indicates that he is quite intrigued by our site, but equally, like the Ignavi, he cannot “commit” to it, so he tries to start an interaction, while showing that he’s too smart to be “taken in” by us. Of course, we’re not trying to take in anyone, so this type of approach is merely irritating. It wastes his time and ours. However, in this instance, we decided to reply:

“And to those who say beware of movements? What say you?”

Yes, we agree. And you know what Groucho Marx said; “I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”

“You have asked us to withhold questions until completion of the site…this in itself is a contradiction…a site, like god, is never complete…it is always becoming. What say you, M?”

Correct again. When we say, “finished”, we mean that we won’t be adding any new material. But, of course, that is not the same as “finishing” in an absolute sense.

“As for your glaring “9-11” (or is it 11-9?) vs. multiple simultaneous cells of brilliant Saudi boxcutter pilots???)…c’mon dudes. Is this one more thing yet to be revealed in “the final cut”? Or am I just supposed to ‘get it’?”

There are three main reasons for advocating the 9/11 demolition theory:

1) To deny that Muslims were the perpetrators of 9/11.

2) To undermine confidence in a particular American government and show that, given their track record, they were well capable of something so dastardly. Also, to attack a certain form of government (capitalist “democracy” based on unregulated markets).

3) To attack government per se. To assert that government is an intrinsic evil that must be overthrown. This is an attack on all forms of government, not just one particular type.

Zeitgeist subscribes to the second reason. It is entirely opposed to the prevailing style of government in America and the West. However, it has no interest in abolishing government but, rather, in replacing it with a far better type of government. The Zeitgeist case must be absolutely differentiated from that of anarcho-capitalists who want to demolish government of any description. They would be as opposed to the new form of government advocated by the Zeitgeist Movement as they would to the particular government of George W Bush.

The Zeitgeist Movement are not fellow travellers with Ayn Rand’s army of anarcho-capitalists. Quite the reverse.

Thesis (Zeitgeist): Government was capable of 9/11 and culpable for 9/11.

Antithesis (US Government): Government was not culpable for 9/11.

Synthesis: Government did not carry out the 9/11 attack, but was capable and culpable.

Perhaps dialectical logic has escaped someone like you with your zealous Aristotelian mindset. Good luck with that.

9-11…11-9: Very clever. You understand that different nations use different formats for dates. Are we supposed to bow to your genius at this point? Never quite sure with messages such as yours.

the barry movement
beware

One trusts that your “movement” will remain with a membership of one since you’re clearly not the type who wants to get serious about anything.

Goodbye.
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9/11 – The Ultimate McGuffin?:

The truth of 9/11 could not be simpler. Osama bin Laden did it and Bush and co were hoping he would do something of that nature to give them a pretext to invade oil-rich Iraq, give regional support to Israel, and try to start converting Islamic countries to puppet capitalist democracies under America’s control, thus extending the Old World Order’s power to regions of the world not yet fully under its heel.

This “neocon” agenda of America was well known. America’s support for Zion and Zionism is infamous throughout the world, but that doesn’t mean that the American government was behind 9/11.

Nevertheless, they certainly provoked it with their foreign policy choices and they were “happy” to do so since it allowed them to accomplish long-cherished strategic aims.

The key to the whole controversy of 9/11 is the collapse of the Twin Towers and Tower 7. The conspiracy theorists say that the hijacked planes couldn’t possibly have brought the towers down, therefore they must have been expertly demolished. Therefore it was an inside job and therefore the American government was responsible.

But the collapse of the towers is completely irrelevant. America would have relied on the fact that four airplanes were hijacked and used in suicide operations as sufficient pretext for their subsequent foreign policy (military) response. Whether or not the twin towers fell down would not have made the slightest difference and therefore could not have been part of any conspiracy.

To repeat, if everything had happened exactly as it did, except the Twin Towers and Tower 7 did not come down, the American reply would not have been one iota different. The hijacked planes slamming into highly symbolic American buildings and killing hundreds of American citizens was the only excuse the American government needed to carry out its policy. In other words, the collapse of the Twin Towers and Tower 7 – the so-called smoking gun – is completely irrelevant in terms of the government’s alleged conspiracy. Since the smoking gun is irrelevant, it’s crazy to conclude that it furnishes certain proof of government involvement.

Why would the government be so dumb as to carry out needless and dangerous demolitions when it already had the excuse it needed for a war? Any American officials allegedly sitting in a room planning a false flag attack would never have said, “Right, it’s not good enough simply to hijack planes and crash them into buildings, horrifically killing hundreds of people; we also need to demolish the Twin Towers, and, hey, why not demolish Tower 7 and Tower 5 while we’re at it, even though nothing is actually going to hit them and it will look as suspicious as hell?”

It’s INSANE.

The collapse of the Twin Towers and Tower 7 is the biggest red herring in history. The buildings collapsed for reasons that are now quite well understood in engineering terms. No demolitions took place.

American policy would have to have been dependent on the collapse of the Twin Towers for a conspiracy theory to have any credibility i.e. it is being asserted by the “Truth Movement” that America would not have responded as it did if the Towers did not fall. Clearly, this is entirely false – whether the Towers fell or not was neither here nor there in terms of providing a pretext for a war. Hence there was no government conspiracy.

American support for Israel is a disgrace, and the invasion of Iraq was a disgrace, but that doesn’t mean that the American government committed 9/11. The fact that 9/11 suited their agenda doesn’t make them guilty.

All thinking people should analyze the facts rationally. Any intelligent person should be able to detect a myriad of holes in the 9/11 conspiracy theory.

9/11 was, in truth, an unsophisticated, low-tech attack by 19 Muslim suicide bombers. Bin Laden wanted to strike back against America and he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. Airplanes had never been used as suicide weapons before, so America was taken by surprise. What’s so hard to grasp about that?

There are many videos and articles on the internet that debunk those who claim that the American government carried out this act. The people who hold the belief that the American government was responsible tend to be libertarian fanatics (Ayn Rand’s mad fan club) who hate the American government and wish it nothing but harm.

They are prepared to believe anything that points towards the guilt of the American government, and to ignore anything that does not. They are not “truth seekers”, but merely people with a political axe to grind and a burning hatred of the American government and any interference by the state in their lives.

We are in no way sympathetic towards the American government – quite the reverse – but that does not mean we will support any theory about their culpability that is refuted by all available evidence. There is not one shred of credible evidence that the American government carried out this act. There is, however, a great deal of evidence that they knew something like this was being planned, and they took no serious steps to prevent it. But these are two very different positions. However, it’s no disaster that many Americans believe that their government was capable of perpetrating 9/11. And this is exactly what Zeitgeist plays on. The “game” is to bring as many people as possible to a point where they no longer have any confidence in their government and no faith in the system. Only then is real change possible.

The Zeitgeist 9/11 sequence is designed to provoke you and get you to think. It has proved entirely successful. But anyone who, after some reflection, really believes that these buildings were rigged for demolition has lost the plot…
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