In his new book, ‘Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy,’ Colin Dickey discusses America’s founding narrative.
In his new book, “Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy,” Colin Dickey wastes no time getting to the point. “The United States was born in paranoia,” he writes in the book’s introduction. “It has been with this country from the very beginning, shadowing it ever since.”
The most central one that runs through almost all of the U.S. is the Illuminati, which was an actual organization in Bavaria, Germany, for about 10 years in the 1770s. They were stamped out by the Bavarian authorities, and that was the end of them.
What I come to time and time again is that the thing about a conspiracy theory is that it provides a narrative and order to an otherwise chaotic or random world. And even though that order may seem malevolent or nefarious, it nonetheless offers an explanatory mechanism to make sense of things. That is something a lot of people crave, even more so than a benevolent order. They would rather have a nefarious order running things than pure randomness. That just provides a measure of comfort.
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