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Psychopaths, Secret Societies and the New
World Order

By Jerry Russell
and Richard Stanley.

Revision level:
1.0

4. Secret societies in government, business and
religion:  From the earliest times of
recorded history, we find that secret societies are a natural and integral
part of human civilization.  What we mean by a "secret society" is
one whose meetings are not open to the general public, and whose written
documents are kept confidential to some extent.  Secret societies are
often organized hierarchically, with ultimate decision-making power vested
in a single individual.  Outside of a secretive core group, a secret
society may have a much larger hierarchical structure which operates very
openly and which produces abundant documentation of its broader
operations.  Our hypothesis is that these secret societies can
operate as a mechanism for filtering and selecting psychopathic
individuals to carry out the conspiratorial goals of a society and its
leadership.

Many modern governments have an intelligence service which
operates as a "secret society" whose covert operations are hidden
from the public, and which produces a great torrent of highly classified
(and unclassified) documentation.   Examples would include the
American CIA,
the Israeli Mossad, the KGB
of the former Soviet Union,  the British MI-6, and so
forth.

Similarly, nearly all corporations are organized as
secret societies, with operative decision-making vested in a hierarchical
management group (CEO, vice-presidents, corporate secretaries etc.) and
boards of directors, who design business strategies in confidential
meetings whose results are zealously guarded as trade secrets.
(However, since the 1929 fiasco the SEC and public investors have required
some disclosure of financial results.  These disclosure requirements
have now been effectively voided for the most part, as shown by the Enron
affair.)

Possibly the most prototypical examples of secret
societies are known as the "mystery religions" or "occult
societies".  These are religions which attempt (with varying degrees
of success) to make secrets out of  their central doctrines as well
as their procedures and meetings.  Examples include the Freemasons
(and derivative organizations such as the Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Thule
Society, Rosicrucians and so forth),  the medieval Knights
Templar, the Roman Catholic Jesuits and Opus Dei,  the Assassins and some
other sects of Ismaili (Aga Khan)
Muslims, the Essenes
and other Hebrew mystery cults, and ancient Roman Mithraism.
The names of the deities of any particular occult society may vary from
time to time and place to place, the underlying motifs and archetypes are
generally similar, and closely related to the pantheistic astral and
tribal paganism of ancient Mesopotamia.  This is the worship of Mithra
(the Sun), Sin (the Moon) and
Lucifer
(Venus),
along with Ahura Mazda or Yahweh (the Great Architect of the Universe?)
and Moloch and
Baal, the tribal consorts of the astral gods.  Modern apologists
for Freemasons and other occult secret societies argue that these ancient
pagan gods are correctly  interpreted today as benevolent and
altruistic symbols.  However, in ancient history these same gods were
portrayed as jealous and angry gods, actually psychopathic gods,
who would lie and kill without remorse in the pursuit of ultimate and
eternal power, and who demanded the aroma of human
sacrifice.  In their choice to preserve and venerate the memory
of the psychopathic gods of ancient Mesopotamia, are modern psychopathic
elites also revealing something about themselves?

Most modern human beings are convinced that these pagan
gods passed into the dustbin of  history two millenia ago, but we
suspect that this may not be the case.  Repeatedly throughout
history, the elites of the Great World Empire have been attracted to
religious secret societies such as these, which maintain a high regard for
the ancient pagans.  We submit that this is no
coincidence.

In modern times we are also seeing a proliferation of
elite secret societies which operate at an international level, such as
the World Bank
and IMF and associated world economic meetings, and the Bilderberg
society.  Similar organizations such as the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR) and Trilateral Commission seem to
operate on an open level, although it is difficult to know whether they
might have a secretive core level.  These
international (globalist) secret societies have an extraordinary and quite
well-documented ability to attract wealthy and powerful individuals to
form their core membership, just as the religious secret societies also
attract these same individuals.  Furthermore, their memberships are
often interlocking, such as in corporate boards.  As noted in Janis
Irving's 1972 book "Victims of Groupthink",
any committee or group (even one composed entirely of
non-psychopathic individuals) can fall prey to various faulty decision
making processes.   However, it should be clear that if a
substantial portion of any secret society is made up of psychopathic
individuals, the decision-making processes will be further compromised to
say the least.  Also just as clearly, such an organization is a good
place to organize a conspiracy -- that is, an illegal or wrongful scheme
perpetrated by two or more persons acting in concert.

Any assessment of the power of the psychopathic tendency,
in powerful individuals, dynasties, and secret societies, is basically a
matter of historical judgment over a broad sweep of time and across many
events.   Conspiracists have often been accused of "mining" the
historical record for odd factoids and tidbits that support some skewed
and paranoid interpretation, and we do not wish to contribute to that
syndrome.  Our goal is to take a patient and systematic overview
of the broad sweep of history, and show that it is overwhelmingly
consistent with our view.

While we note that many mainstream
observers are skeptical, we also observe that many who actually take
the time and effort to evaluate the literature on secret societies tend to
eventually fall overboard into the opposite conclusion.  Time and
time again we see concerns that one or another of the secret societies is
becoming so powerful that it is nearly omnipotent and eminently capable of
conquering the world.   The John Birch Society fears a Communist
conspiracy,  Hitler's Germans feared a secret conspiracy of Jewish
bankers, and so forth.  For the most part, advocates of these
theories are rightly seen as crack-pots.  Most anyone can see that
the Socialists are opposed by the Capitalists, the Jews are opposed by the
Moslems, and nobody seems to have any imminent potential of winning the
whole ball of wax.   However, with the understanding that all of
these facets are inter-related at some point by their relationship to the
New World Order, we realize that we simply do not have the data to resolve
the questions about exactly what power is held by each of the secret
societies.  In fact, the proliferation of secret societies is
probably largely innocent, and has the effect of creating a sort of "shell
game" as conspiracy theorists try to guess and argue over which of the
secret societies is most important and responsible for the world's
problems.

Factors preventing the psychopathic conquest of the
world.  We presume
that  total world domination is the long-term goal of the Great World
Empire, whether or not they have mapped out and designed their means to
achieve such a goal.  To understand this, consider the problems it
would solve for them.  All the taxes (tribute) from all over the
world would go to a single center. A single world army would only need to
be big enough to put down any challenges that somehow arose from below,
and escaped the attentions of worldwide surveillance. A plutocratic class
(and who knows how big or small it might be) could have as many slaves and
servants as they needed, and any surplus population could simply be
killed, leaving vast, beautiful, empty estates for the chosen
few.  Assuming the worst possible scenario --
that this is actually the articulated and self-comprehended plan of the
elite classes within their secret societies -- we must consider all the
problems they face in their attempts to reach this goal.

One class of problems is structural within the elite psychopathic
class.  At every new generation, some of the children
of any wealthy family will grow up without any psychopathic tendencies,
yet they inherit great wealth anyhow. Sometimes the scions of the wealthy
might merely pretend to
be psychopaths in order to rise to a high station, then hope to use
their power to good ends later in life.  Also, it
must occur from time to time that  a ruler of a nation (being truly
psychopathic) might rebel against the Secret Order and seek to aggrandize
themselves at other society members' expense. Remember, they're
psychopaths, which means they only work together to the extent that it
benefits themselves.  The elites exist within a
world that  has always been fragmented into various races, and
divided by languages and cultures. These divisions naturally induce
suspicion, and can be exploited by rebellious psychopathic members of the
secret societies -- in order to create an independent power base, and then
extend their direct share of power.  Meanwhile, all other
psychopathic rulers (as well as uncorrupted ones, if they exist) must
prepare to defend against incursions.

The elite also faces continual challenges from the people they rule
over.  It's impossible for the elite  to monopolize all the
wealth in a society.   The first problem is that destitute
slaves do not make effective or enthusiastic warriors -- a nation of angry
or hopeless paupers is easily conquered. Also, in order to promote a work
ethic, there need to be some rewards for effort -- otherwise all the
subjects will do the minimum necessary to avoid being
whipped.  The Laffer
curve illustrates that there  is some optimum level of taxation
which maximizes government revenue, while still leaving significant wealth
for individuals.  Furthermore -- any society
requires a class of managers, supervisors and bureaucrats who have some
training and resources. Those classes represent a constant source of
challenges to the elite rulers  -- and they may take nearly complete
control of a society, especially if they are also landowners and are able
to force a Republican or plutocratic governmental structure.

Rule by "quislings" is especially ineffective, because the subjects
want to overthrow the ruler as soon as the traitorous relationship is
exposed. There is a limit to the amount of tribute (taxation or war
reparations) that can be extracted by this means.  Also, from time to time, the machinations of the secret society are
exposed and become generally known. Then the society must submerge
politically, and may suffer significant losses of assets. If a society
preserves Republican or Democratic formalisms, then there is a limit to
the amount of lies that can be fed to the people -- eventually the
formalisms break down and are replaced by overt dictatorship.

History has seen many attempts by the New World Order to consolidate
its rule over the whole globe.  Time and time again, these attempts
have failed, for the structural reasons I've just listed -- and also
because any such empire inspires resistance in the entire world outside
itself.  If the Bush war campaign, now gathering force around
Iraq,  represents an attempt to create such a world empire -- it
seems quite certain that the attempt will fail yet again.  The only
question is how much chaos will be created in its
failure.