The Illuminati by Robert Howells

Author:Robert Howells
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: The Illuminati: The Counter Culture Revolution-From Secret Societies to Wilkileaks and Anonymous
ISBN: 9781780288727
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2016-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

THE ILLUMINATI MEME

The Illuminati had advocated equal rights for women and many other ideals that were boiling over into mainstream culture in the 1970s. In 1975 Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea published The Illuminatus! Trilogy and triggered a timely resurgence of interest in the Illuminati. It stands as a conspiratorial epic of fiction that places the order at the centre of every major event in history. The authors had identified the Illuminati as history’s most successful secret society, with members infiltrating all levels of government, and portrayed them as manipulating history on a global scale while breaking the psychological blocks to promote individual freedom through elaborate pranks and social engineering.

The book was an underground success, garnering a cult following, and Wilson went on to write many other books, both fiction and nonfiction, that expand on the subject. It is here that the Illuminati surge back into social consciousness as a symbol of the chaos that erupts into society just as the unconscious erupts into our awareness. The idea of the Illuminati instantly gained traction among the conspiracy theorists who sought a grand conspiracy to solve the world’s unsolved mysteries. For them the Illuminati became a meme: a name to describe the shadowy organizations that were responsible for all conspiracies, wars and major historic changes. These authors cemented the reputation of the Illuminati as a byword for the activities of every secret society in history.

The reappearance of the Illuminati came at the perfect time. When the optimism of the Sixties drained away and the ennui of the suburban Seventies took hold, the change provoked anger among disaffected youth, and from this anger came energy. The generation gap then became a chasm through which the counterculture was once more empowered. Music continued as an outlet for dissent, and mainstream culture suffered a direct assault as the rage of punk exploded. The UK punk movement was radical in its sound, politics and fashion, and openly rebelled against the staid society that was choking the hope out of the young by ignoring free expression.

The British punks attacked the dreary establishment that they refused to inherit, with Johnny Rotten repeatedly intoning the lyric ‘No future’ to underline the point. It was both a rejection of generational values and a class war. For the disempowered and unemployed youth all that seemed possible was a revolution to no purpose. The aristocracy had survived in England but the power of privilege was beginning to crumble, like the stately homes being forfeited to the National Trust.

Punk also signalled a celebration of self-created identity that challenged the rise of gross commercialism. The underground press movement captured the punk ideology with amateur fanzines that mixed music and politics with a bold disdain for social normalcy. Selfpublished records provided a blunt howl of dissent through the speakers of the vinyl record shops, and the punks tore up fashion in search of self-expression. The movement was as iconic in its look and attitude as it was in its music. The blatant use

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