[Music] [Applause] [Music] open your eyes sheeple dark Forces are at work behind the scenes Puppet Masters pulling the strings and controlling everything you see and hear no not the Knights Templar the rosac crucians I mean the hacks who keep using secret societies a shorthand for evil in their pop cultural products Dan Brown's latest book inferno has the Consortium Jay-Z and Drake name check the Illuminati and Rick Ross rhymes about Freemasons and the Templars show up yet again in Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag all of these secret societies seem to fail at their Central Mission being
secret storytellers are deploying secret societies far too casually they've turned into paint by number super villains with a a dash of X Files and a pin of Alex Jones but what bothers me more than the laziness is the fact that this leeches power from actual conspiracy theories our most vital and Powerful form of modern-day folk art don't believe me search YouTube for Illuminati so that's who forced Tupac Shakur and Paul McCartney to fake their own deaths live and learn live and learn look you can make great art about secret societies but but only if you
make it about the paranoia itself like Ekko did with fuko's pendulum or Steve Jackson did with his Illuminati card game or Philip K dick did with with everything with everything he ever did ever people who record rants about how the pyramid on the dollar bill proves that the trilateral commission controls Major League Baseball are a national treasure the movie National Treasure is not a National Treasure what's your favorite conspiracy theory let me and the NSA know in the comments
