{"id":2461,"date":"2002-12-20T12:18:38","date_gmt":"2002-12-20T15:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=148"},"modified":"2010-05-09T18:44:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:44:52","slug":"illuminati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2002\/12\/20\/illuminati\/","title":{"rendered":"Illuminati&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was rereading some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawilson.com\/main.shtml\">Robert Anton Wilson<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasticfiction.co.uk\/authors\/Robert_Anton_Wilson.htm\">Illuminati books<\/a>, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0914171453\/\">&#8220;Right Where You Are Sitting Now&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This book was published in 1982. There are some great quotes, like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By 1983, the computer industry will probably be the number one money-making industry in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The major battle of the 1980s will be over the control of microprocessors. the techno-managerial elite, the ACLU and those scientists who are true to the spirit of science will unite to attempt to <em>accelerate the flow of information<\/em> with these marvelous great tools. All conspiracies, and scientists working for conspiracies, will attempt censorship, blockage, legal restrictions&#8230; how much freedom of electronic &#8216;speech&#8217; we are allowed in the next ten years will determine whether conspiracy or the Bill of Rights is going to dominate our future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>RAW&#8217;s books are great fun and somewhat alarming if you take that sort of thing seriously, which I usually don&#8217;t. However, every now and then some sort of synchronicity happens; today, Cory Doctorow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\">Boing Boing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2002_12_01_archive.html#90073014\">referred<\/a> to the strange case of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thememoryhole.org\/policestate\/iao-logo.htm\">scary vanishing logo<\/a> of a certain government agency.<\/p>\n<p>The eye-in-the-pyramid in that logo is, of course, the standard symbol used by RAW&#8217;s Illuminatis&#8230; one wonders who dreamed that one up; either a secret conspiracy buff, or someone completely na\u00efve and uninformed about the implications. Either way, it&#8217;s scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was rereading some of Robert Anton Wilson&#8216;s Illuminati books, including &#8220;Right Where You Are Sitting Now&#8221;. This book was published in 1982. There are some great quotes, like: By 1983, the computer industry will probably be the number one money-making industry in the world. The major battle of the 1980s will be over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-DH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}