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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 12 Num. 29
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL
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("Everything is Under Control," by Robert Anton Wilson.
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New York: Harper Perennial, 1998. ISBN: 0-06-273417-2.)
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Review by Conspiracy Nation
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Robert Anton Wilson dedicates his latest book, in part, to Mimi
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Hill, a "wonderfully efficient Websearcher." Mimi ought to take
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a bow since she has indeed come up with a lot of material that
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even the august Conspiracy Nation had not known previously.
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(Examples later.)
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The book, "Everything is Under Control," is a wide-ranging
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compendium of various conspiracy "theories," and includes sources
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for those wishing to delve further into a particular "theory."
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In its all-encompassing coverage of various conspiracy stories,
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Wilson's book follows trails already blazed by previous
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cataloguers such as Jonathan Vankin, Kenn Thomas, Al Hidell, and
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Donna Kossy. Wilson's book offers a good crash course in
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conspiracy "theories" for the beginner and has new information
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for the experienced connoisseur.
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Wilson himself is a hard person to figure out. In his
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introduction, he distances himself from conspiracy "theories" in
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general, declaring that "Conspiracy theories flourish in times
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and places of anxiety and uncertainty" and that the various
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"theories" renew his faith in "poetic imagination." But
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throughout the book itself, Wilson frequently seems to endorse
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some of the "theories" as extremely likely. Then again, he keeps
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throwing in references to "The Church of the Sub-Genius," obvious
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kooks. There is a lot of truth camouflaged by kooks, sneers, and
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pseudo-intellectualism in Wilson's book: did he have to include
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the camouflage in order to get the book past the corporate
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censors? Is Wilson actually "pushing the envelope," sneaking
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good information to the public hidden beneath a pose of
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skepticism?
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Here are samples of various "theories" covered by Wilson which
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Conspiracy Nation had not previously encountered:
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** SOME SAY that the Cain-Abel story "represents lying propaganda
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by the carnivores against the vegetarians." Cain, a farmer, is
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non-violent versus Abel, a shepherd, who is violent. (Another
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angle on the Cain-Abel story is given by Rene Girard in his book,
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"Violence and the Sacred." "One of the brothers kills the other,
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and the murderer is the one who does not have the violence-outlet
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of animal sacrifice at his disposal.")
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** SOME SAY that John Adams had opinions about banks that sound
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"shockingly like some modern conspiracy theorists and money
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cranks."
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** SOME SAY that Saint Ambrose of Milan viewed usury as not the
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charging of =excessive= interest on money loaned but as the
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charging of =any= interest on such loans. "His view therefore
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condemns the entire structure of modern finance capitalism..."
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** SOME SAY that the death of communism leaves "malcontents" as
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the only remaining serious opposition to the "money-power elite."
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(This idea is echoed in Michael Moore's latest, hard to find
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movie, "The Big One." Moore suggests that, yes, =one= "evil
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empire" is gone, but adds that the =other= "evil empire"
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remains.)
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** SOME SAY that Ambrose Bierce's later writings (after *Devil's
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Dictionary*) "deal increasingly with weird and uncanny subjects
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and often concern other worlds or other dimensions of being..."
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** SOME SAY that "they listen to you through your telephone
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without its being off the hook."
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** SOME SAY that the quatrains of Nostradamus "=reveal the past=.
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The quatrains tell what really happened in past history."
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** SOME SAY that the real and absolute money power originated
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with the Warburg Bank of Amsterdam "and was part of the 'Orange'
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take-over of England and America, after the mildly illegal
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installation of the Dutchman William of Orange as King of
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England."
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There's a lot more. Marina Oswald, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald,
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is quoted as saying
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The answer to the Kennedy assassination is with the Federal
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Reserve Bank. Don't underestimate that. It's wrong to
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blame it on [James Jesus] Angleton and the CIA *per se*
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only. This is only one finger of the same hand. The
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people who supply the money are above the CIA.
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The late Howard Hughes is claimed to have believed that the
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Rockefellers own the U.S. courts and judges.
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David Rockefeller is claimed, through his Chase Manhattan Bank,
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to be a top stockholder in the Federal Reserve Bank. That idea
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is not delved into enough: The "Federal" "Reserve" is a
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=private= bank; who are the other stockholders?
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There's a lot more. Read the book to find out some things you
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didn't know. Then delve into the sources.
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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For related stories, visit:
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http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
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of Conspiracy Nation, nor of its Editor in Chief.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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