“The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power”.

They seemed like good people.

  • Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 years ago

    I remember that some discordianists were experimenting with ways to kill off conspiracy theories. What they did was choose some obscure underground organization from the 18th century, create an intentionally silly conspiracy theory about it and sprinkle it randomly into Playboy magazines as well as novels and plays. It had quite unintended consequences as we can observe.

    • lxvi@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      They had to do something after the blatant assassination of a particular president and the assassination of his brother not a year later. Not to mention all the questionable assinations of black civil rights leaders that you’d have to be willfully blind not to tie back to certain political, extra-judicial institutions.

      Shortly after was the time people started talking about the illuminate and lizard people. "You don’t believe what you’re told? What do you think the illuminate was in on it? ". Certainly enough idiots out there to buy the hogwash and give the strawman a guise of credibility.