“The Illuminati, a mysterious international organization made up of the best political and social elites in the world, controls the functioning of the entire world behind the scenes.” This is the world’s most famous conspiracy theory about the New World Order.
For hundreds of years, Illuminati legends have been spread and many people today believe that the Illuminati still exist. The Illuminati are believed to cover various fields such as global politics, military affairs, finance and the mass media control the historical process of the entire world.
The ultimate goal is to establish a New World Order. Nobody can prove it, but many people believe it. This is the most paradoxical thing about conspiracy theories.In the 2009 film, Angels and Demons – based on Dan Brown
‘s bestseller of the same name, Professor Langdon, played by Tom Hanks , the story of the Illuminati, supposedly born in Europe in the era of the Enlightenment, was discussed. There were physicists, mathematicians and astronomers who questioned the “erroneous teachings” of the authority of the Holy See and devoted themselves to the scientific field of seeking truth.
Eventually, the Illuminati were forced to become a clandestine organization and have continued to recruit members for hundreds of years to this day. In Angels and Demons, the historical facts are clearly questionable, and the film appeared after the great economic crisis of 2007-2008.
The conspiracy theory on the New World Order has been around for a long time and is full of mysterious theories which, however, convince many people helpless and dissatisfied with the current state of the planet.
The Illuminati, who advocate the establishment of a New World Order, through the planning of a series of political and financial events (the financial tsunami of the aforementioned 2007-2008 is said to have been planned by the Illuminati), attempt to influence the course of world history, and eventually establish an authoritarian world government.
Proponents of the New World Order theory believe that even the mighty US government is now just a puppet government. While another “shadow government” made up of a few people makes decisions aimed at changing the fate of the planet.
One might think that all of the above are just outlandish theories. However, many people think this is true. According to a 2013 poll conducted by the Public Policy Polling Foundation, 28% of US voters believe the New World Order is indeed taking hold. Brian L. Keeley, a philosophy professor at Pitts College who devotes himself to the study of modern conspiracy theories, believes that an important feature of conspiracy theorists is that they cite a few trivial and overlooked incidents and then propose a perfect explanation for an embarrassed official answer. . The reason why the explanation of conspiracy theory can be widely spread is that it has no argumentative process to deny. It is just a judgment that jumps directly from hypothesis to conclusion. In the process of argumentation, it is only a subjective interpretation of the event.
Nevertheless, for the public opinion that does not fully understand the incident, the conspiracy theory provides an “explanation” for the unknown part of the aforementioned incident, and this “explanation” itself cannot be denied (because its very existence is not supported by real arguments). Therefore, the valid argument is recognized by many people.
For example, no one has substantial evidence to prove that the Illuminati really exist, but no one can prove that the Illuminati are purely fictional. Therefore, you cannot deny its existence, because its existence is “perfection without evidence”.
The columnist Martha Gillwrote in The Guardian, describing the Illuminati as the longest lasting conspiracy theory organization in world history. “The conspiracy theories relating to the 1969 moon landing mission, the Kennedy assassination, the 9/11 attacks, etc., are all limited to a specific time, space and location. But the conspiracy theories that support the existence of the Illuminati can connect them. But anything about these connections are difficult to prove ”. In other words, supporters of conspiracy theories can have a common imagination and attribute everything to this organization, so that every irrational phenomenon in the world can be explained.
Although no one can prove the real existence of the Illuminati, there is indeed an alleged “global shadow government” in the world whose name is the Bilderberg Group. The Bidderberg Group holds a world-class private meeting every year and among the attendees are elites from all walks of life such as government, business, media, science and technology.
Known as the “Most Mysterious Conference in the World”, the Bilderberg Group invites several famous political and economic figures to attend its meetings every year.
Prince Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld(1911-2004) held the first meeting in 1954. Since the meeting venue was located in the Hotel Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, his name was used as the denomination of the group. The existence of the Bilderberg Group is not a secret, but the content discussed in the conferences is absolutely confidential and the mainstream media are unable to report on the content of the meeting.
The Bilderberg Group issues a press release each year to present the conference participants and the outline of the topics. Over the years, attendees have come from many places, including Prince Philip of Edinburgh (1921-2021) of the British Royal Family, Crown Prince Charles, former British Prime Ministers, the French PresidentMacron, German Chancellor Merkel, and former US presidents Bush, Clinton, as well as Bill Gates and other Internet giants were among the guests. There were also Italians, as published years ago in a newspaper in our country.
The 2018 conference was held in Turin, Italy in June. According to the description on the official Bilderberg Group website, the main topics include European populism, the development of artificial intelligence, quantum computer technology and the era of “post-truth”. Of course, the actual content and outcomes of the meeting’s discussion were never reported.
Therefore, the Bilderberg Group has naturally become a locus where conspiracy theorists want to draw materials. They describe the Bilderberg Group as true proof of the theory that a very small number of elites control the world, and the participants are planning a New World Order.
As for what they are, let’s give some examples. In June 2018, the British royal family also got involved in conspiracy theories. When Prince Harry and his wife Meghanthey witnessed a show, they were captured by the camera motionless, like two rigid and obtuse robots. Related clips went viral on the internet afterwards, and netizens were in an uproar: many people believed that the illustrious members of the royal family were actually robots developed by high technology.
However, the management of the London museum, Madame Tussauds, later explained the mystery by stating that “Harry” and “Meghan” were only played by two actors who wore extremely high likeness wax masks on their faces, all to promote a displays of wax figures, and inadvertently caused an uproar.
In that short video, “Harry” and “Meghan” did not change their facial appearance, their expressions were rigid, just like robots. Consequently, conspiracy theorists used this as proof that they were robots secretly built by the British royal family.
This argument is an extension of the “trivial evidence” above. The proponents of the argument ignore any procedure of argument and directly draw the final conclusion through the aforementioned “trivial evidence”. And this conclusion is highly topical and quite captivating. With the rapid spread of the Internet, the “quick truth” will naturally be recognized and sought after by many people.
I believe many people still remember the “Mandela Effect” that spread wildly on the Internet in the early years as a false memory. The name “Mandela Effect” is believed to come from Fiona Broome , a self-proclaimed “supernatural consultant”, who created a website called “The Mandela Effect”. Supporters of the “Mandela Effect” say they “remember” that former South African President Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. But in reality, after being released from prison, Mandela was president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 and died in December 2013.
So why would anyone believe this seemingly absurd claim
The internet has become a support platform with a lot of wrong content (fake news), unreasonableness and lack of justification. When someone shared this “false memory” with others on the Internet, many people believed it to be true, and even suddenly recalled having this memory: “Mandela died in prison that year”.
As a result, lies inconsistent with the facts continue to ferment. The lie is repeated thousands of times and many people consider it to be the truth: this learning phase is the first misleading rule on the Internet.
In the age of the Internet, multi-dimensional and cross-platform features have spawned a number of malignant online “tumors” of conspiracy theories. Furthermore, their diffusion capacity is not limited to the “believers” room. Since online social platforms provide a very widespread and wide diffusion space, one passes it to ten, ten spreads it to a hundred, one hundred to a thousand, and so we proceed in the geometric phase, making a “hot” topic on the Internet become a truth absolute. Whoever wants to believe is naturally willing. Furthermore, these false opinions on the internet can even impact the real world.
For example, on a political level, now everyone can comment and participate in the online competition. For politicians to get the right to speak and set the agenda, the key and rely on the leadership of public opinion on the Internet, and Internet discourse has become the dominant element of political discourse, and not vice versa. The characteristics of social networks are precisely the breeding ground for conspiracy theories. The internet is easy to ferment in public opinion and is exactly the breeding ground for conspiracy theories.
In today’s framework, conspiracy theories are sufficient to influence politics and even political development. A certain conspiracy theory gains a number of supporters through the Internet and promotes it to become a hotly debated public opinion. Consequently, it enters the real political space by coming from the virtual community and its influence can change the direction of government decisions.
Looking from another angle, when conspiracy theories are put on the Internet and continue to proliferate – regardless of whether or not the Illuminati exist – they are themselves enough to establish a New World Order: public opinion of the world changes. real, the composition of opinions and the foundation of social discussions, and thus affect the countries of the world, politics, rulers.
