1 (edited by SiriArc 2006-05-02 21:58:34)

Topic: Lube Up And Spread 'Em

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From:

http://www.metahistory.org/MostEnigmatic.php

John Lash wrote:

Virtual Conspiracy

.......dossiers secrets

These documents, and the Prior of Sion whose existence they announce, are widely considered to be a hoax, but not just an ordinary hoax. I would call it a hoax in the form of a virtual conspiracy. I do not mean that the Priory of Sion, the alleged secret society, is a real conspiracy, but that the story about the Priory  is a conspiratorial fiction.

A virtual conspiracy is an act of collusion, not for the purpose of doing something (such as assassinating a political leader, destroying skyscrapers, or preserving a secret), but for the purpose of introducing a false story about something claimed to have been done. The Priory of Sion is a fictional invention intended to serve a definite end, which it serves extremely well, even though the Priory doesn't exist. The trick is that the virtual conspiracy (a secret society called the Priory of Sion) is the delivery system for certain information (the sacred blood-line descended from Jesus). The two components, delivery system and false information, make a self-propagating delusional system. The society does not have to exist for it to be the source of the information it introduces. Once introduced, the information goes about propagating itself.

The object of the conspiracy is to spread information (‘teachings‘), some of which may be true and valuable. More often, however, the virtual conspiracy is used to spread lies and disinformation. It is the ideal vehicle for the Paternal Lie.

Take the assassination of JFK, for instance. Many people believe that Oswald did not act alone. It is claimed that there was a conspiracy involving a number of people who collaborated to assassinate Kennedy and set up Oswald as the fall guy. But what if there was no conspiracy to assassinate JFK, i.e., to do the deed, but there was a conspiracy to make it look like the deed was orchestrated by a conspiracy? This doubling effect signals the virtual conspiracy, like virtual reality which doubles or reproduces a real scene or event. This is an extremely effective technique of deception, because the invented or virtual conspiracy will form a crust around what actually happened and seal it off from investigation or understanding. Whoever can throw a virtual conspiracy around something, be it an assassination or a religious relic, will be able to hide the truth about it.

The virtual conspiracy is a potent tool of mind control. Indeed, one of the most potent ever conceived by the human mind. It produces a huge return on a minimal investment. To succeed with a virtual conspiracy, you do not have to control what people do, and you do not even have to set up an elaborate scheme to make something happen in the world: you merely have to suggest how things may be perceived to happen, or to have happened. To induce a situation in which the assassination of JFK is perceived as an act of conspiracy has far-reaching effects, and these effects are far easier to achieve than a real conspiracy involving a complex plan with multiple actors and things done at certain times in specific places. Needless to say, mounting an actual conspiracy is complicated and risky. The operation is always vulnerable at the weakest link. Moreover, an actual conspiracy can be found out, the perpetrators can be identified and made accountible. But a virtual conspiracy, which may be instigated by a single person in the most banal manner, requires no such complex arrangements. Even if the source of the conspiracy is identified, as has been done with the Priory of Scion, it continues to thrive, unaffected by exposure. It is the product of everyone who takes interest in it, whether they believe it or not.

Because it relies on the power of suggestion and unverifiable claims, a virtual conspiracy is strong, even at the weakest link. For example, it has been argued that the amateurish quality of the dossiers secrets was intentional because the very look of those documents would discredit the information and turn away those who were incapable of looking deeper. In other words, the documents were presented that way as a filtering device, a tactic of misdirection. Whoever came up with this notion was elaborating the virtual conspiracy by making its originators look clever. The originators have only to sit back and watch their project grow in the minds of those who consider and discuss it.

The Priory of Sion is an extremely clever virtual conspiracy that acts as the catalyst for a mind control experiment in which millions of people are now avidly participating. The originators make a minimal effort, planting some bogus documents, and the conspiracy takes off under its own power. The fictional Priory is the source of certain information, the delivery device for claims that permutate wildly in the minds of everyone gets intrigued by the information. The secret society itself does not exist, and never did, but such is the cleverness of the system: it does not have to exist in order to deliver the information.

All the discussion and debate hides the Grail of the Mysteries–not to protect it, and not for benevolent reasons. Far from it. The mind control strategy operating here buries the Grail in bla-bla to make it inaccessible to humanity.

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Re: Lube Up And Spread 'Em

A fascinating and well written find SiriArc.....
This subject is not one that I know much about, but the tek of artifice I do understand....
It has been called Memesis by some
Ideas get planted that become sudden sacred beliefs and spread like wildfire with no basis in experience or fact.
This expose is truely impressive in the meta sense.

StarCat

3 (edited by SiriArc 2006-05-04 00:33:19)

Re: Lube Up And Spread 'Em

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Here's an older post to a link to a link to a link to a link.......

http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=2052

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This Concept (along with other 'Large Ones') also gets a major treatment in Orsen Scott Card's

Xenocide

Refering to: World of the Path.

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