NEW WORLD ORDER !!!1!: Behold a Pale Horse pp. 448-459

 We’ve left the HIV/AIDS conspiracy and now we’ve moved on to the New World Order. You know, the thing that the entire book has allegedly been about, so we’re back to this topic. I know I sound like I’m beating a dead horse’s drum here, but the only justification for this appendix is that Cooper thinks that he needs one. He doesn’t understand what they are for but the “smart books” have them. Is this going to be evidence or different conspiracy theories that are supposed to prove his point.

The first document is a scanned version of the front page of John Robison’s “Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on In the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies (Collected From Good Authorities).”

It’s literally just the front page of the book. I spent a good year or so reading this book; and it’s not the proof of anything. It’s just Robison complaining that Masonry in Europe isn’t how he remembered it, the Illuminati weren’t that awesome, and some secret group in Germany was trying to start an inter-library loan program in order to facilitate literacy (the Illuminati also had this goal, but they even wanted to teach women). Appendices are supposed to be supplementary information so are we to assume that Cooper read this book? Or are we to assume that this book supports Cooper’s position? I have no idea. In any case, the answer to both questions is going to be no.

Our next document brings us the “Club of Rome Report.” The Club of Rome is like the Illuminati, the New World Order, the Bilderberg, etc. It’s another boogeyman that the conspiracy world latched on to and they sit at the high table of the conspiracy world because of the name. In reality, they are just another exclusive intellectual group that people like Cooper are not invited to. Like the Tri-Lateral commission (Goldwater’s boogeyman) the Club of Rome was formed after WWII and in response to the Cold War. The Club worried about the continued population expansion and how that would effect resource stability. This is always anathema to conspiracy theorists like Cooper, Icke, and Jones; who seem to think that any recommendation concerning over-population is anti-human.

The Club or Rome published a few items, famously they produced a book titled “Limits to Growth” that used state of the art 1971 computer modeling to discuss the economic future of the planet. Then produced a much more detailed work “Mankind at the Turning Point” by Eduard Pastel and Mihajlo Mesarovic. These two men are the alleged authors of the report that Cooper has included; but this is very likely not true. First off, the work included by Cooper is titled, “Regionalized and Adaptive Model of the Global System.” Which feels incomplete like there is something previous to it missing. It’s marked “C O N F I D E N T I A L” at the bottom and dated as September 1973. This means it comes a year before “Mankind at the Turning Point” and it could be a draft of the report or an excerpt.

It reads very similar to the later part of Chapter 1: “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars” where the author is talking about energy, regions, and economics in ways that are completely alien to the conventional understanding of the words, “The world problematique formulated by the CLUB OF ROME is not only global in nature, involving factors traditionally considered as unrelated, but also points to the crisis situations which are developing in spite of the noblest of intentions and, indeed, as their corollary.”

That was the first sentence and outside of some post modernism or critical theory there is no way an academic put out that nonsense. It sounds legitimate and intelligent, but that’s the trick. Read that first part again, the author is saying that a world problem is global and concerns many factors. Wow, genius. The last phrase, “indeed, as their corollary;” as no reference. Who does “their” refer to? The excerpt is peppered with full caps phrases, which again, reminds me of the first chapter of the book.

My biggest problem is that the section continuously refers to the “world problematique” without describing what that means. I gave some context to the Club of Rome earlier, but Cooper does not, so any assumption about the Club of Rome and its purpose is just an assumption. The average reader in 1995 isn’t going to have this context.

What I think is happening is that Cooper, or whoever did this, has capitalized the only sentences we are supposed to read. This is so we don’t pay attention that the entire section is being written in pronouns. It’s so abstract but then it will say things like “ENERGY MODEL HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED” and we are supposed to assume that this is about energy rationing when the rest of the paragraph merely describes that the model divides the world into sections based on usage and resources. It’s not anything nefarious, it’s just an academic exercise.

A better example is that of Section 5: the capitalized part reads: “A MAJOR CONCERN IN THE APPLICATION OF THE COMPUTER MODEL…THE METHOD REPRESENTS A SYMBIOSIS OF MAN AND COMPUTER IN WHICH THE COMPUTER PROVIDES THE LOGICAL AND NUMERICAL CAPABILITY WHILE MAN PROVIDES THE VALUES, INTUITION AND EXPERIENCE.” The “…” omits the part where the authors explain that problem with computer models is that they are too deterministic, so they rely on human analysis of the computations.

This section only looks nefarious if we’ve been primed by Cooper’s fear of computer models from the first chapter AND we ignore everything else that is going on in this document. I don’t know if this is an excerpt from an actual Club of Rome document but there is no evidence of anything aside from an exercise in separating the world into regions for a reason that is academic at best.

The next piece of evidence is an article from Look Magazine in 1962. The Israeli Prime minister, David Ben Gurion, describes a peaceful world in 1987 where the UN will be located. He sees that the world will abolish its armies and replace them with an international police force, there will be a pill to prevent pregnancies, and the average age will be 100. While the first part is definitely the fears of Cooper and his readers, we must keep in mind that this is a utopian prediction, it’s not evidence of anything unless of course, you believe that the Protocols was real and that the Jews are planning to run the world.

Our final piece of evidence for this week is a picture of US General Colin Powell shaking hands with General Mikhail A Moiseyev of the USSR. There is no reason for its inclusion. The caption on the photo explains that a military exchange program between the two countries would be extended until 1992 (the picture was taken in 1990).

Appendix E is just more filler. There might have been something interesting if Cooper had written any kind of commentary. Mostly, it feels like we are just grinding out the rest of this book. In the actual text, I could at least say that we were reading it to get an understanding of the conspiratorial mindset in the 1990s, but now, I can’t even say that. I’m just reading random documents and looking at pictures that were arbitrarily included. Cooper never mentioned Powell at all, so it’s a mystery as to why this is here.