paranoiaphilia

[Mike Weaver]

>The people at these conferences tended to be paranoiaphiliacs. They believed
>there was a secret conspiracy running the world, but they were in favor of
>it because they thought they were it.
>...
>Far from mastering events, the poor souls who attended summits found history
>moving in unfathomable directions.

The Bildeberg conferences, Trilateral Commissions and their like are 
anti-democratic gatherings which wish to control global development, 
conspiracies by any other name.
The curious thing about conspiracy theorising is how much of it assumes 
success as part of  the definition, cock-ups being  proffered in contrast. 
Maybe most conspiracies are cock-ups!

Brigadier Pudding and his book may well be taken as Pynchon's satirical 
comment on this process.