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Edited on Tue Feb-28-06 01:12 PM by arendt
If you ever venture near the swamp of "secret societies", you may have heard of "synarchy".
I tripped over it because I get an absolute laugh out of the ludicrous response of everyone to "The DaVinci Code". It is a real-life re-run of Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum".
Beginning from DaVinci Code, you don't have to go far to find synarchy. Just proceed through "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", and you meet Pierre Plantard and the Priory of Sion. Two years after DaVinci, the crazies who make their living in this looney bin have unanimously decided that the P of S is a total fraud. One new book turns over the rock of Mon. Plantard, and out crawls...
....synarchy.
But, if you Google synarchy, you mostly get hits on Lyndon LaRouche publications - where sane mortals fear to tread (very well written, but very twisted alternate reality conspiracy theories).
Can anyone tell me if "synarchy" really existed, or if it was nothing but an exotic conspiracy theory to explain the origins of fascism?
I have seen claims that the Egyptologist, Schwaller de Lubicz, was a synarchist, and that all the New Age pyramid cult stuff is another synarchist plot. That SdL was a Nazi sympathizer, and perhaps, an agent.
I'd forget about synarchy, categorize it as X-Files, LaRouche, cultie babbling, EXCEPT that Leo Strauss and the neocons do behave like the "mythical" synarchists; and they have direct personal connections to "historical" synarchists - who, it is claimed, were very active in pre-fascist (e.g., G. Annunzio) and fascist Europe. Hell, Michael Ledeen worships Mussolini.
Any comments or insight about the reality of synarchy? Is this cult-land? Do I need to be de-programmed?
arendt
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