Michael Hoffman - Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare - Comment.

 

What makes conspiracy theories compelling is that they provide meaning to things and events, usually terrible events, giving us something or someone to blame. What gives most conspiracy theories credence is that they do, in some cases, hold some modicum of truth. However compelling these theories may be, there seems always to be one piece of the puzzle missing, one illogical leap of faith, and the argument falls into a thousand pieces.

In this interesting text, conspiracy investigator extraordinaire, Michael Hoffman, has his enemy targeted, and it is their power/occult driven machinations behind the scenes, that has contributed to the rapid decline of western civilization, as we know it. And he calls this enemy the "Neo-Platonic, Gnostic-Hermetic, Kabbalistic-Rosicrucian-Masonic-Cryptocracy who, since the renaissance, have been hell bent on turning the planet into a materialistic centered, somnambulistic, soulless wasteland. And these so-called elites have infiltrated every influential aspect of our culture, from governments, churches to the medical profession and advertising. 

As far as Hoffman is concerned, we are being manipulated on a grand scale, and these elites have done so well, at this stage of the game, the mind control being so extensive and pervasive, we're aware of being manipulated, but are simply do apathetic to do anything about it.

This is not the place to analyze all Hoffman's propositions and theories, pick them apart, and reveal some pretty extensive flaws in his thinking; however, the greatest flaw being the fact that by definition, a secret society is just that, secret. He targets the Freemasons, OTO, Gnosticism, Scientology, Rosicrucian's et al. A few of these organizations have had to be secret at some point in time in their respective histories because of oppressive prosecution but exist in present time in an open democratic society. It is their actions, or "secret" actions that have Hoffman all tied up in knots. Although it's the way he goes about connecting the dots, so to speak, that is extremely compelling.

If anything, Hoffman's writing persuades us to think outside the circle. His writing pushes us to transcend the prosaic reasons given to us from so-called authorities and seek the truth. Government actions, particularly, are always shrouded in PR rhetoric, and it is surprising that so many people believe the spin-doctors. But wasn't it Freud who said that most people prefer illusion to the truth because illusion is much easier to live and deal with...perhaps.

Hoffman should be taken with a grain of salt, though his thought processes are intriguing and well worth the ride.