“The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power”.
They seemed like good people.
“The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power”.
They seemed like good people.
I remember that some discordianists were experimenting with ways to kill off conspiracy theories. What they did was choose some obscure underground organization from the 18th century, create an intentionally silly conspiracy theory about it and sprinkle it randomly into Playboy magazines as well as novels and plays. It had quite unintended consequences as we can observe.
Sounds similar to how the modern flat earth conspiracy theory came to be