Robdemanc wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:
I think what is happening is that our chosen way of economic practice has created a small set of people with extreme power and money. This was inevitable and predicted by Karl Marx. Now we are in that situation what can we do about it? As we have recently seen we can do nothing about it. Because these few people in power will ensure that their power is never put in jeopardy and will use public money to prop themselves up.
While people may laugh at ideas like the "Illuminati", the world is in a situation where if an organization like that existed the vast majority of people would be oblivious of their existence.
A great quote from Einstein is: "The world is a dangerous place. Not because of bad people doing bad things, but because everyone else stands by and lets them do it."
This is my original post. Nowhere in this text does it say the Illuminati exists. Perhaps those who ask me for evidence are merely annoyed that I have not decided to ridicule the OP and his belief's like they have. If he believes it then let him.
A) nobody is trying to take away the OP's right to be deluded. So dont go trying to take away our right to express concern over his being deluded.
B) If you are not saying that "the Illumanatti exists" then what the heck ARE you saying?
C) What you MIGHT be saying is "I dont believe in the Illumanatti myself, but a reasonable person might believe in it". But if so - even claiming that a reasonable person might believe in it is an extraordinary claim (like saying that a reasonable person might believe that the Moon is made of green cheese) and it still requires extraordinary proof.
Well as I understand it the Illuminati is said to be a group of families that have the most control of money in the world and that they work together in secrecy to maintain their control. This is a natural outcome of power. People in power will go to extreme lengths to retain their power and pass on to their offspring. It is reasonable to assume that. And if such a situation was true, then most of us would not be aware of it.
Thats not the "Illuminati" ( of either fiction or fact) a club in the late 1700's formed to promote the ideals of the Enlightenment in Bavaria (therefore feared by the Catholic Church) who got seized upon as a boogeyman by a cardinal who authored a propaganda book about how the illumanatti was out to corrupt all of mankind. They died out after 15 years but they live on as boogeymen to every hysteric ever since to this day. But this later, fictional Illumanatti, though it is an evil cabal, it is not particularly plutocratic as I understand it. There just a bunch of well organized evil people!
you're thinking of the Bilderburgers.
After WWII the rich elites of america and europe started to hobknob at those conferences at the hotel in bilderburg. That lead to the bilderburger conspiracy theories.
Get your tin hat theories staight!