Yes, the Illuminati was a REAL secret society (and there are many others - including in our time) - I never denied that. My problem is with the MYTHS and conspiracy theories surrounding such societies that completely distort the history.
Just as with MANY conspiracy theories, they are based on a kernel of truth/history, but (over the ages) some people/groups/psychologies completely bastardize, distort, invent, embellish, hype, mythologize, and sometimes outright lie to present a narrative that is SO DIFFERENT from the truth/real history that it lands up being a discredited and debunked conspiracy that people so love to continue to propagate and propagandize.
>>"Btw, you should just read the wiki page on the Illuminati."
I was going to link the Illuminati page from Wikipedia, but then I realized that this substack is very popular with conspiracy theorists, anti-science people, and black-and-white distrusters of everything on Wikipedia - and so I relented.
Yes, the Illuminati was a REAL secret society (and there are many others - including in our time) - I never denied that. My problem is with the MYTHS and conspiracy theories surrounding such societies that completely distort the history.
Just as with MANY conspiracy theories, they are based on a kernel of truth/history, but (over the ages) some people/groups/psychologies completely bastardize, distort, invent, embellish, hype, mythologize, and sometimes outright lie to present a narrative that is SO DIFFERENT from the truth/real history that it lands up being a discredited and debunked conspiracy that people so love to continue to propagate and propagandize.
>>"Btw, you should just read the wiki page on the Illuminati."
I was going to link the Illuminati page from Wikipedia, but then I realized that this substack is very popular with conspiracy theorists, anti-science people, and black-and-white distrusters of everything on Wikipedia - and so I relented.