The Illuminati in Hollywood: Celebrities, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies in Pop Culture and the Entertainment Industry

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Continuing this theme, d’Arc commented, “Another famous actress, Britney Spears, appeared to break into an alter personality during a interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer. When asked an emotionally difficult question, Spears suddenly began speaking in a much louder, different voice, saying, ‘Hello, I’m like, goodness, hello.’” Gordon, Alexander (1911). "Illuminati". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.14 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. p.320. Weishaupt, Adam (1790). Pythagoras oder Betrachtungen über die geheime Welt- und Regierungskunst. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Frankfurt; Leipzig. p.670. In 1773, Weishaupt was made the chair of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt, a university in Bavaria that was largely influenced by the Roman Catholic Church. Before his appointment, the position had been occupied by priests for 90 years. Two years later he was made dean of the university at the age of 27—and many of the priests at the university weren't happy with the young hotshot who was gaining power. Jesuits and Weishaupt fought over the church's "intolerance" and "bigotry," and this led Weishaupt to conclude that a secret group of like-minded thinkers would be the only way to overthrow the status quo. So, he wanted to be a Freemason, of course. Only problem is that he didn't have the money to pay the admission fee (and he also concluded in the end that the Freemasons weren't secret enough). Making his own society was the next best alternative.

The Illuminati did not survive their suppression in Bavaria. Their further mischief and plottings in the work of Barruel and Robison must be thus considered as the invention of the writers. [4] Despite this, they have been featured in many modern conspiracy theories predicated on their survival. British electronic band The KLF also called themselves The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, named after the band of Discordians that infiltrate the Illuminati in Wilson’s trilogy as they were inspired by the religion’s anarchic ideology. Then, an Illuminati role-playing card game appeared in 1975 which imprinted its mystical world of secret societies onto a whole generation.Daniel Schmachtenberger on Sensemaking, Narrative Warfare, The Importance of a Healthy Information Ecology and more Engel, Leopold (1906). Geschichte des Illuminaten-ordens (in German). Berlin: Hugo Bermühler verlag. OCLC 560422365. (Wikisource) Political Ponerology – A Science On The Nature of Evil Adjusted For Political Purposes March 8, 2021 Christina Aguilera’s “Your Body” video features pentagrams, symbols of the goat-head demon Baphomet, and more, which led theorists down a dark rabbit hole. Colagrossi, Mike (March 28, 2019). "Behold, the '70s sci-fi book series that popularized the Illuminati conspiracy". bigthink.com. Big Think . Retrieved January 14, 2022.

Hogle, Jerrold E. The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-79124-3. pp. 51–55 In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the protagonist Adam Jensen discovers the Illumanati were behind many of the game's events, attempting to control the spread of "augmentations", advanced artificial organs capable of greatly improving and enhancing the human body's performance. Some people have been saying for years that Celine Dion‘s music is the work of the devil (mainly men), so it doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch that she is now being lumped in with the Illuminati. In concert, she often throws up the Devil’s Horns or the “El Diablo” hand gesture — a nod to the devil. And she has also been pictured covering one eye, a nod to the All-Seeing Eye. Beyoncé

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a b Gosa, Travis L. (2011-06-01). "Counterknowledge, racial paranoia, and the cultic milieu: Decoding hip hop conspiracy theory". Poetics. 39 (3): 187–204. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2011.03.003. In the final weeks before the 2020 election, the outsize role of conspiracy theories in American politics has become unmistakable. For some Trump supporters in particular, campaign-season news is filtered through the powerful idea that hidden forces are at work, that the “ deep state”—a supposed secret, shadowy and sinister group of leftist politicians, government bureaucrats, Chinese scientists, journalists, academics and intellectuals—is seeking to destroy American values. Seen through that lens, COVID-19, which has killed nearly 200,000 Americans, is a “hoax”; some even believe that Anthony Fauci is a “ deep state doctor.” Jay Z has also been accused of hiding secret symbols such as goat imagery and devil horns in his music videos. The logo for his own music label, Roc-A-Fella Records, is a pyramid – one of the most well-known Illuminati logos.