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"The Secret Society"
Well, you knew it would come to this. The entire right -- not just the Alex Jonesian wingnut wing of the right but the entire right -- has gone into quivering fits of conspiragasm. Why? In part, because Trump and his supporters have no other refuge except for deep-dish paranoia. But the immediate cause was the release of a text message which contains a reference to...(Sound FX: Discordant musical sting...lightning strike...horses neighing...cats yowling...)
..."THE SECRET SOCIETY"!!!
The email was part of the exchange between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page. I call them "Mulder and Scully" because the proper spelling of Strzok won't stick in my brain and I'm sick of looking it up every damned time. Those emails are a godsend to the Republican propagandists, who are intent on squeezing out every drop of juice -- and then they'll pump in more juice and squeeze again, the same way I keep printer cartidges going and going.
The actual message came from Scully:
"Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society."Context is missing, so I don't know what the reference to "calendars" means. But it sure seems to me that this message is un-serious.
On the right, of course, this reference is being treated as a rare glimpse into the workings of Illuminati Central. I'm sure that some conspiratards think that the missing texts contain references to Weishaupt.
My opinion may be of value here, since (as regular readers know) I have long taken an interest in the mythology and lore surrounding secret societies. Moreover, I'm probably the only writer commenting on the Mulder-Scully affair who has actually dated a member of a secret society -- a group widely considered fearsome, even though it's really rather inconsequential.
It's true. That part of my infamous April 1, 2006 post was on the level. (Please keep in mind that one can see a woman romantically without sharing her goofier beliefs.)
Never forget that Alex Jones fell for that post hook, line and sinker -- as I knew he would, because I know how right-wing conspiratards think, if "think" is indeed the right word. They are addicted to insane theories about secret societies, and they will fasten upon any shard of pseudo-information which can be used to make a beloved hallucination seem real.
That's why they're going crazy about that "secret society" message from Scully to Mulder. The poor creatures don't know whether they should dance a jig of triumph or scramble into the bunker and wait for Jesus.
It falls to me to make a point which everyone else has missed.
If you search the lore of actual secret societies -- from the Wieshaupt-ians to the KKK, from the Carbonari to the Holy Vehm, from Utile Dulci to Odessa, from the Priory of Sion to the ever-dreaded OTO -- you will never once discover an instance when members refer to their little group as a "secret society." To the best of my recollection, those words (and cognate words in other languages) are simply never used. For example, Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy quotes extensively from correspondence between Weishaupt and his followers, who never once use the phrase. Yes, that term is used by outsiders, but it is never used by those inside.
Near as I can tell, this rule obtains in all instances. The Priory of Sion was a tiny group of (apparent) surrealists who amused themselves by pretending to be much more influential than they were. We have many of their writings, and I can't think of one time they referred to themselves as une société secrète. (No, I'm not going to spend this morning reviewing all of that abstruse material just to confirm my memory.)
Spokesmen for Freemasonry tend to say: "We are not a secret society; we are a society with secrets." I can recall no other example of an alleged secret society using anything like that terminology.
(If you can cite an example that my memory banks failed to store, please share.)
Bottom line: I think that Mulder and Scully were engaging in jesting banter. Either that, or some hacker inserted that line into the text-stream, knowing full well that any reference to a "secret society" would send all the paranoia junkies into a volcanic paroxysm of Feargasm.
(I have just enough of the conspiracy buff left in me to consider the latter idea possible.)
Finally, I direct your attention to Kevin Drum:
The hell of it is that there was a sort of secret society in the FBI. It was a bunch of agents in the New York office who were obsessed with destroying Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign. And they had enough clout that they were able to effectively blackmail FBI director James Comey into releasing the infamous letter that, in the end, did destroy Hillary Clinton.Just so. As I've said many times: The only genuine conspiracies are the ones perpetrated by the right, and the right-wing conspiracy theorists are the foremost conspiracy practitioners. This scenario was true of Edouard Drumont, Pyotr Rachkovsky, Henry Ford, Adolf Hitler, Joe McCarthy, General Walker and Jim Angleton. It is true today.
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