However there are some people in Ingolstadt, such as Klarner, who are actively trying to bring this unusual historical legacy to light.
This is why many literary theorists believe Mary Shelley knew about Ingolstadt, and why Frankenstein was then set here. As we passed the large green, orange and yellow painted buildings of the old city, Klarner reeled off significant Illuminati dates, individuals and information, taking us back to 16th-Century Ingolstadt and the role of 15th-Century university professor Johann Eck in helping to cement the city, and the university in particular, as a bastion for the Catholic faith — something Weishaupt looked to counter two centuries later.
Back at Sister Anna's bookshop, however, the mystery around the Illuminati continues to catch the imagination of the shy nun — despite what the history books may say. If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc. The birthplace of the Illuminati. Share using Email. I always believed that the illuminati society was kind of like how vampires or bigfoot came to be. I think the reason most people believe that politicians or celebrities are tied to the illuminati is because their faces are plastered everywhere.
You never really hear stories about a neighbor or a friend being part of the illuminati but people that already have influence. It could just be the style of the video or they could think it makes them look cool. I also liked how you mentioned that they just be poking fun of conspiracy people since that is also a likely explanation for why they do things that seemed connected to the illuminati.
Lastly, I agree on your point on how the illuminate could stay hidden for so long when today we film everything and put it on social media. I wonder why the use of a triangle is associated with the group instead of some other symbol. I also did not know that the Illuminati was an actual group at some point.
However, there are certainly people who still perpetuate the theory very deliberately- I once received a message on Instagram from a random account asking if I would join the Illuminati. I laughed with my friends about it, but it is interesting that people still take the time to do that. Famous individuals definitely have a bigger influence, but they are still are under the control of law. What makes the conspiracy grow is the fear of people. While reading your post and some of the comments attached, I started to really become enlightened on this topic.
I thought the illuminati was just someone putting emphasis on some kind of natural occurring thing, and providing extraordinary reasoning as to why that certain thing is there. Like the example of the pyramid with the eye centered in the very middle of it on a dollar bill. I do believe—like some of the others above—that there IS in fact specific groups of people who run things in this world. Thank you so much for your post! Really interesting!
Do you think it has increased as people have become more partisan? For instance, do people think that the celebrities and politicians who are allegedly involved in the Illuminati are all colluding together at once, or are there factions even within that?
I feel like there is some through-line or parallelism between the belief in the Illuminati and hyper-partisanship, either in membership or at least concept. Super random question: If the Illuminati were real, and you were invited to join, would you? The Illuminati theory has always been fascinating to me because I first heard about it when people told me Beyonce was a part of it and other celebrities.
In addition to celebrities, when politicians were added it made the belief easier to believe because they truly do control society.
It seems that illuminati has a plan to construct a set of New World Order by placing their members into some important government organization. However, if there really is some kind of groups has so much influence and power that could set the agenda for world regulation. Another piece of evidence that supporters use is that cops have become more heavily armed than ever, which is indicative of the government militarizing the police Santoro, Under a New World Order, we would have to have a strong police force to control citizens.
There is also a laundry list of evidence that questions the existence of the Illuminati. For one, there is not conclusive evidence that definitely shows that the Illuminati exists Hahn, Much of the evidence touted for the Illuminati relies on theories made by proponents, or video clips interpreted by proponents. If the society was real, and their primary goal was to hide their existence, it would make more sense for them to erase any videos or online content discussing the Illuminati, and not show any proof to the world currently there are thousands of Illuminati conspiracy videos on Youtube.
Finally, there is the point that in our capitalist society, the ability to make money by any means necessary is very important. Skeptics point out that if people put occult or illuminati symbolism in their content, it will help them gain popularity because people love to talk about conspiracies Hahn, For confirmation bias, much of the proof that is used to verify the existence of the illuminati is popular culture—videos, news, celebrity behavior, etc.
When people see these ambiguous sources of information, they will often find a way to construe the evidence in a way that supports their belief. For example, there was a clip of Beyonce at a basketball game where she was zoned out for 30 minutes and moving her head from side to side. This was an ambiguous source—Beyonce could have simply been zoned out and moving her head because her eyes were tracking the movement of the game of basketball she was watching.
However, illuminati conspiracists interpreted this video to mean that Beyonce is a part of the illuminati and she was glitching. When every piece of ambiguous information shown to you is interpreted by you to be evidence for the illuminati, this reifies the strength of the belief you hold. Another cognitive contribution is the issue of logic.
This fits into an issue with logic because while the premises may be true, the conclusions do not follow from the premises. One characteristic is conservative beliefs. As mentioned above, the illuminati and conservatives share the critical belief that the government is heavily involved in the lives of its citizens.
Another characteristic that stems from right-wing extremism is anti Semitism. The Illuminati conspiracy is inherently anti Semetic because a large part of the population of believers think that Jews control the world similar to the propaganda touted during Nazi Germany. To believe that any one group controls the world is in line with the idea of the illuminati and the New World Order.
Finally, I would say that generally, Illuminati proponents are people that have a great deal of cynicism and mistrust of the world around them. To believe in conspiracies is to believe that what you see around you is not objective reality, but rather a reality created to somehow dupe you. The social influences that help sustain their beliefs involve a sense of community.
When you have a deep mistrust of the world around you, this ideology goes against our major beliefs of reality. This may isolate you from the larger community, but when you find people who are like you and who believe what you believe, this justifies your commitment to the belief. Similarly, hyperactive agency detection is the human condition, not a medical one.
Furthermore, the causes of our overuse of these basic cognitive mechanisms are often completely understandable desires rather than pathological defects. The world is confusing and complex. Almost all of us try to tidy it up, which is why there are disciplines such as social science, economics and international relations.
All require the time, intelligence or education that most of us lack. Little wonder that we often resort to quicker, dirtier ways of making the world comprehensible. Rather than just dismissing Hellyer and his ilk, we would do better to see how much of our thinking displays the same weaknesses. As long, that is, as the cabal is the global financial elite, the military—industrial complex, big pharma or agribusiness.
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