Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic - Peter J. Carroll 2000

Politics II Conspiracy Theory

Nobody has unity of desire;

The selfs within the person

Conspire to fulfill their instinctual agendas.

Such conspiracies spiral upward in fractal self-similarity through domestic, social, workplace, national and international scenarios, yielding chaotic outcomes at all levels.

Conspiracies exist all right:

But Fuckup mostly rules the outcome.

An overdue and bloody revolution left the French with a fear of Anarchy. Subsequent francophone esoterics tended to center around middle class neo- Masonic initiatives aimed at preserving social order with Synarchic principles.

Multiple French disasters in war only served to strengthen this tendency. The absence of Crowleyesque initiative to modernise French esoterics early in the 20th century, or an occult revival in the post 1968 period has resulted in a late 19th century political metaphysic forming the philosophical basis of European Union.

Commentary 15

Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we cannot predict much about tomorrow strongly indicates that most of the explanations we develop about how something happened yesterday have (like history in general) a high bullshit content.

Three things feed conspiracy theories:—

Paranoia born of the need for self importance.

The need for enemies; which comes down to more or less the same thing.

The desire for belief even in malignant forms of control rather than in the reality of pure chance chaos and accident.

The Synarchist manifesto appears quite explicitly in the writings of the nineteenth century Martinist esotericist Yves Saint D’Alvedre and in all the European Union constitutional documents. Thus we can hardly describe it as a secret conspiracy. Neither should we feel excessively paranoid about it, for it too will pass after a period of hopeless inefficiency and survivable unpleasantness.

As population, ecological, climatic, and resource pressures rise over the coming decades we can expect to see more and more governments based on cabals of those who imagine they know our collective long term best interests but which act with scant regard for freedom of information or our opinions.