Life has a strange way of replaying the same themes in your life.
When I was around twelve, my Brother gave my Father a t-shirt - for Christmas, or His birthday - I don't remember.
But the shirt itself, just had a phrase on it, that said something like,
THE PLAN TO KILL YOU NEW WORLD ORDER
I thought that was pretty wild, although my Father, well, I don't know what my Father thought. I would sneak into his room sometimes, and look through his stuff. One time I did this, I came upon the shirt!
So, I wore it to high school.
I didn't say much that day and not so many people said much to me. My teacher's were positively confused about it, but no one said anything to me about it, nor did they tell me to take it off, or turn it around or anything. This was before Columbine, but after Waco and Oklahoma City. The two latter happening on my birthday, the former happening a day afterwards.
I forget when, but I think it was in my first year of college, my Brother gave me a copy of Robert Anton Wilson's book, Coincidance. It was a hard read, but I read it, nonetheless. I gave it to some girl who moved to Hawaii, and I never saw that girl or the book, again.
I did start seeing a different girl, who I met in the same classroom as the first and it was, as they say, Serious. I know this, because she had books and I read a good few of them. One book she had, was another Wilson book, The Illuminatus! Trilogy . I never read it when we were together, but believe me, I read a good part of her book collection - I almost suspect, more books than she actually read from them.
She didn't mind, until we broke up and I continued to read books that I saw in her stacks and then she thought that was just fucking weird. Never to my face, but she decided Did Not Like me as much, after finding out I was reading the same book as she and, since I was a faster reader, I'd also finish it before her. In all honesty, it was my attempt to relate to a person who didn't want to relate to me anymore and could only tell me passively, if at all.
I guess I was thinking about all this and the past election and the upcoming holiday season - and my Brother, too and decided to recreate the shirt, again. And wear it around. And see what people say, now - now that I'm out of school and just an adult. It's a very strange political climate, with a president-to-be, that seems almost to be on our side and not the side that favors complete world domination and a shadow government. Me? I did to be conservation about any politician that sounds too good to be true.
If I see my Brother for Christmas, I've got a t-shirt - almost exactly like the one he gave my Father, that I then stole from my Father (and then... lost?), to give him.
I sort of thought, that if I made this shirt, and wrote this all out and connected a few dots, I'd personally learn something new, but I didn't. Only furthering the mystery in anticipation on what's next. Hopefully a anarcho-prankster visitation, and not a real Fascist World Government
The New World Order is a conspiracy theory, in which a powerful and secretive group is plotting to eventually rule the world via an autonomousworld government, which would replace sovereign states and other checks and balances in world power struggles. In this theory, significant occurrences are said to be caused by an extremely powerful and secretive group or collection of interrelated groups. Historical and current events are seen as steps in an on-going plot to rule the world primarily through a combination of political finance, social engineering, mind control, and fear-basedpropaganda. New World Order conspiracy theory may be presented by any who fear the loss of their ideological freedom and liberties, conservatives and liberals alike. Conspiracy theory in the late 20th century and early 21st century allows for the paranoid fusion of many ideas that in the past might have been thought to be mutually exclusive.
Illuminati (plural of Latinilluminatus, "enlightened") is a name that refers to several groups, both historical and modern, and both real and fictitious. Historically, it refers specifically to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on May 1st, 1776. In modern times it is also used to refer to a purported conspiratorial organization which acts as a shadowy power behind the throne, allegedly controlling world affairs through present day governments and corporations, usually as a modern incarnation or continuation of the Bavarian Illuminati. In this context, Illuminati is often used in reference to a New World Order (NWO). Many conspiracy theorists believe the Illuminati are the masterminds behind events that will lead to the establishment of such a New World Order. Confusing the issue further is the fact that there are also several modern fraternal groups which include the word "Illuminati" in their names.
His best-known work, the cult classic[9]The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975), co-authored with Robert Shea and advertised as "a fairy tale for paranoids," humorously examined American paranoia about conspiracies. Much of the odder material derived from letters sent to Playboy magazine while Shea and Wilson worked as editors of the Playboy Forum.[10] The books mixed true information with imaginative fiction to engage the reader in what Wilson called "Operation Mindfuck." The trilogy also outlined a set of libertarian and anarchist axioms known as Celine's Laws (named after Illuminatus! character Hagbard Celine), concepts Wilson revisited several times in other writings. It included a subplot about biological warfare in which a pimp contracts a deadly form of experimental anthrax. While the pimp is able to elude agents of the US Government — which reacts to the crisis by overriding the Bill of Rights — the pimp is eventually tracked down by operatives associated with Hagbard Celine. The story also gives a detailed account of the John F. Kennedy assassination, in which no fewer than five snipers, all working for different causes, were prepared to shoot Kennedy as he passed in his motorcade. The book's climax occurs at a rock concert in Ingolstadt where Hagbard Celine tries to rescue the audience from an Illuminati plot to make them victims of a massive human sacrifice. Illuminatus popularized Discordianism and the use of the term "fnord." It also incorporated experimental prose styles influenced by William S. Burroughs, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound.[11] Although Shea and Wilson never partnered on such a scale again, Wilson continued to expand upon the themes of the Illuminatus! books throughout his writing career. All of his later fiction contains cross-over characters from The Illuminatus! Trilogy, which won the Prometheus Hall of Fame award for science fiction in 1986, has been reprinted in many countries, and was adapted for the stage by Ken Campbell into a ten-hour epic drama. It has been adapted into a Steve Jackson role-playing card game called Illuminati and a trading-card game called Illuminati: New World Order. A comic book version was first produced by Eye N Apple Productions, then by Rip Off Press.
