Putin & the Conspiracy Theorists (Political Fantasy)

[David Morris]

Fear mongering works.

On Saturday, December 20, 2014, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/5889/full
>
> here is a widespread tendency (again not specifically Russian and not
> invented there) to believe in occult, hidden forces which are the real
> shakers and movers in world politics, whereas those about whom we read
> and hear in the media are merely their puppets. Some Russian
> ideologues believe (or pretend to believe) that the real struggle in
> world politics is between two parties — the Rothschild party and the
> followers of the Rockefellers. Believers in contemporary conspiracy
> theories generally have only a dim idea of where the real big money is
> found. According to the more learned followers of Lyndon LaRouche, for
> instance, it is a bitter fight between factions on a higher
> philosophical level — the Aristotelians and the Neo-Platonists. But it
> is not made clear where they keep their money — certainly not in
> present-day Greece. There has been in recent years a close cooperation
> between the Russian extreme Right and the LaRouchans; a recent example
> is Sergei Glazyev's "On Eurofascism" in Executive Intelligence Review,
> a LaRouche organ.
>
> This belief in the hidden hand and the forces of evil tends to be
> particularly strong in times of great upheaval. The Protocols were not
> really influential during the first two decades of their existence.
> But after the First World War and the Russian Revolution, events of
> world historical importance which could not easily be explained, the
> Protocols were widely read and often believed because they seemed to
> offer a key to otherwise inexplicable events.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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