(With regards to the title of the video, Freemasonry and the Illuminati are two completely separate ideas, and only really interchangeable in the minds of people who don’t know much about either group, particularly conspiracy theorists.)
You’ve made no statement of your own, therefore there is nothing in particular to refute.
In the general sense, you seem to be assuming that storylines about secret societies and groups equate to real ones, and are therefore being planted by these groups, in some sort of circuitous plan which is somehow not as completely self-defeating and retarded as that sounds if you say it out loud.
Secondly, you are assuming that imagery which is artful, esoteric or even being used in a sinister way in such works (of FICTION), has a covert meaning which is, actually, sinister. There is no basis for this thinking. (see: your link to the Vampire Savior video)
Because you are inclined to this sort of thought, however, you are vulnerable to deceptions (the irony!) which reinforce this view. I don’t intend to waste my time watching the entire video you linked, but DaDesiCanadian has pointed out the rather salient issue with the Tomb Raider clip at the beginning. Whoever made the video just needed someone to say “Illuminati” a bunch of times to set up the rest of the bullshit in the video.
At about 1:10 we see our first/next example of not-so-subtle deception, where the image of a pyramid on the back of a dollar bill is conflated with a man sitting on a throne atop some stairs, because they both are in roughly the shape of a triangle, with something at the top.
If we actually think about what the clip is of (ie. the villain of a movie; in what way would such imagery be helpful to suggest if you were pro-“Illuminati?”), but as I recall, the character is actually Persian. This is to say nothing of the fact that the entire comparison between the pyramid and the throne is ridiculous straight away, because it’s based on nothing.
More bullshit incoming at 1:45 into the video, because were are being told (or, meant to assume, in the case of people who already believe this dreck or close enough to it), that some guy in a goat mask is representative of Baphomet, who is supposed to represent the Christian devil.
There’s no real basis for this, of course, but I won’t even really dispute the point, since we’re talking about a slightly occultish group of people who are being depicted, and, from a Western point of view.
Moving on to Hackers, I suppose we’re meant to assume that a character saying New World Order is meant to reference the conspiracy theory. President Bush famously used the phrase in a speech in 1990, and it’s not like said phrase has only ever existed to mean the conspiracy theory- that is indeed only the most recent usage of the term- it’s just that, this being the Internet, it is also the most prevalent, here.
With that said, given the fact that the character is giving an eerie monologue with mood music in the background, I won’t particularly argue that he’s trying to be ominous (especially given the nod at the end of the clip, fair enough). What this would have to do with any actual conspiracy theory…well, let me save you the trouble. Nothing. But if the person throws enough shit at the wall, something will stick. The real deception of this part of the video comes from the correlation of the “all-seeing-eye,” which is itself a distortion in several ways in terms of how it is used in conspiracy theorist circles. But, that aside, we’re seeing a projection of an image of one person’s face onto another- I’m not sure why it’s a projection, given that he’s not looking at a projector- and the person who’s speaking’s eyes are on the listener’s forehead.
If I were to write this sort of scene in a movie, would your first thought immediately jump to a conspiracy theory notion about secret societies?
The Gargoyles clip tempts me to stop watching, as it is, if anything, anti-Illuminati propaganda.
I saw the Ghostbusters stuff, and here’s where I’m gonna call it quits.
The video shows, rather poorly, that The Illuminati and secret societies are somewhat prevalent in Western fiction, where they are almost always shown as being the villains of whatever story they are in. It also shows that when people think of occult imagery, they sometimes think of that pyramid on the back of a dollar bill, along with other structures which have fallen into disuse- thrones, pillars, columns, etc.
“The Illuminati” being mentioned somewhere does not equate to any sort of participation in a conspiracy with regards to the people mentioning it. By your own reasoning, I could only assume you yourself were a member of such a group or under the sway thereof, because you brought up a thread mentioning it, and posted a video full if weird propaganda about it.
