Minutiae: Proofs of a Conspiracy...pp. 142-144

This should be more interesting than it is, Robison is giving us the minute details of the alleged global secret society, and to be honest...I think this is all filler. It just reads like filler, Robison is trying to pad out his word count as if no one would publish this book unless it reached 200 pages. As I said last week, this should be very interesting. In fact, if it were true, it should be all the conspiracy theorists ever discuss because the management and maintenance of the conspiracy would have to be such a vast undertaking that the question would not be: who is in the conspiracy but who is not. 

Let's just examine what Robison is telling us starting on page 142 (for the PDF). The central money will be collected and then held as a managing fund. This fund will be directed to each individual lodge according to need, and this will set the machine of the German Union in motion. This is important stuff as it shows how the conspiracy is going to be paid for. Remember that the conspiracy the German Union is going to operate is the dissemination of books, reading societies, and literacy--but let us put that aside for the moment. The collection of funds is nothing new, in fact, this seems to be the best way to operate a centralized plan like this. Actual conspirators: take note as the book could be very useful in setting up a global conspiracy to spread books. 

On page 143 the operation of the conspiracy is further explained, "A diocesan will be chosen, and will direct in every province, and report to the centre every second month, and instructions and other informations will issue in like manner from the center."

So there is a management chain where information would flow up and down to the centralized diocesan who will be in charge. That just sounds like good management. It is important but it also just seems like the best way of doing things. What is the alternative in this case? Have a series of independent cells that have no direction but only a vague goal that they all share? This isn't Michael Collins' Squad during the Irish war for independence (the successful one that ended in 1922). 

Then again, maybe it's boring because it's real and it is necessary. The trouble with conspiracy theorizing is that they concentrate on the fantastic and the absurd at the expense of the machine of the conspiracy. As Dan Carlin discussed in an episode of his Hardcore History series "Supernova in the East," professionals study logistics. He was referring to the difference in submarine warfare between the US Navy and the Japanese Navy. The latter attacked warships while the former attacked shipping and supply lines. Robison is a professional unlike the amateur effort we saw from Gary Allen in "None Dare Call it Conspiracy;" where Allen concentrated on the big financial masters and how they were COMMUNIST, however where Allen offered as evidence only the fact that Rockefeller knew Vanderbilt and someone was in Russia once--at least Robison is giving us the actual mechanism for how the funding is going to be achieved. 

The final position that Robison gives us from a this alleged letter (No. IX) is that the writer of the letter "H. Barthels" believes that, "To stop all cabal, and put an end to all slander and suspicion, H. Barthels thinks it proper that the Union shall step forward, and declare itself to the world, and openly name some of its most respectable members. The public must however be informed only with respect to the exterior of the society..."

The paragraph continues with some specifics about cooperation throughout the entire Union and the hope that others will join Barhtels in declaring themselves. 

This final portion makes sense, because, and Robison's book is proof, if they kept operating in secret they would generate suspicion and rumor. Weishaupt's group could not do this because their ideas were running directly afoul of the intent of the monarchy. However, this German Union is merely publishing books and creating book clubs in cafes and salons. Perhaps they are publishing banned books, but if they are creative enough they can work around this legally. For a book to be banned, someone needs to read it, and the German Union can just bury the book in a pile of others to submit to the censor. 

Openly declaring themselves is a challenge I often make to people who espouse these kinds of theories. My question is, "if they already control everything, then why don't they just say they are in charge?" 

The conspiracy theorist will almost always answer with something like, "the people won't stand for it."

My response is, "Why should the Illuminati (Globalists/George Soros/Klaus Schwab/whoever) care about that? They control the elections, the military, social media, the internet; there is literally nothing anyone could do about it."

This makes the conspiracy theorist angry and they often have no answer to it because what can they actually say? 

By declaring themselves they also allow more people to join, donate, and support them. It also takes the flavor out of those calling them a grand conspiracy. Robison points out the plan, but he's also got to be fearing this result as well. He can rant and scream about it all he wants but now people will quizzically look at him and reply, "that German group of librarians? Yeah, we know about them." 

All of this minutiae is certainly necessary for mechanical reasons, but again, this isn't a conspiracy. Robison takes a point to stress in the previously quoted section that the public will only see the exterior of the German Union. However, this is a conspiracy by implication, because the exterior is always the public face of every organization. We, as the public, do not need to see the interior of a group not because it is nefarious and evil, but because there is no need for us to see it. If you do something as simple as go to Amazon to buy a laptop you are only dealing with the exterior of Amazon. The interior: how my payment goes through Amazon's financial department to how they fulfill the order is nothing that I need to see or understand from the consumer's point of view. The average Berliner doesn't need to know from which person Diderot's book was supplied to their local branch of the German Union, it's not as important to that citizen. Yet, Robison wants to imply that the interior of the Union is something evil and nefarious to which all he can supply is a very weak analogy with how the Illuminati operated. Even he, by this point, must think it weak, because he moves on very quickly to the actual content of the books that the German Union will distribute. For that, we will begin a discussion next week.