Over fifty years ago, a group of pranksters founded a satiric religion devoted to creating conspiracy theories so insane that nobody would ever believe uncritically in conspiracies again. They called themselves the Discordians. And their weird ideas are still influencing us today. History does not record Robert Welchs reaction when he received a letter on Bavarian Illuminati stationery in 1970. Welch was the founder of the John Birch Society, a conservative group with a paranoid bent, mostly focused on communist conspiracies but also willing to expand its gallery of villains to include other secret cabals... Welch may have been a nut but he wasnt a fool, and he was probably pretty sure someone was pulling his leg by the time he saw that the note had been written by Ho Chi Zen, Cong King of Gorilla Warfare. But I like to imagine that curiosity compelled him to read on...
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 02:58:54 +0000
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