Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-03-02
Books mentioned on Part Four: A Complete History of the Illuminati
We continue our discussion of Kerry Thornley, friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and resurrector of the Illuminati. See omnystudio.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Principia Discordia
Discussed“once he comes back to the city the two start work on their long-shelf plans to create a satiric religion based on the Greek goddess of chaos heiress now Gary wrote most of the first draft of a tract that would later become if this is a little bit before zines were a thing but it also is kind of”
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The ego and his own
Discussed“Sterner is a guy who wrote a book called the ego end its own and I am not the person to summarize uh that egoism is kind of is one of the things that like that kind of anarchism is called”
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
Richard Hofstadter's essay collection The Paranoid Style in American Politics examines the recurring patterns of conspiracy theories and political paranoia throughout United States history.
Discussed“I'm going to quote from our friend hofstadter again who wrote the paranoid Style in American politics in November of 1964.”
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Secret Societies and Subversive Movements
Discussed“and these books were Nesta Webster's secret societies and subversive movements from 1924”
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Adam Weishaupt, a human devil
Discussed“an American evangelist Gerald winrod's uh book Adam vicechopt a human devil from 1935.”
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World of the John Birch Society
Discussed“and I'm going to quote now from the book The World of the John Birch Society Welch's first public mention of the Illuminati but not yet the Insiders came in his more stately Mansion speech delivered before a crowd of 1700 at the Conrad Hilton in Chicago on June 5th 1964.”
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On the trail of the assassins
Discussed“he would go on to write the first major Kennedy assassination conspiracy book titled on the trail of Assassins which is what Joe Stone's JFK was based on”
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The KLF
Discussed“and to kind of go through this process I'm going to quote now from the book klf by an author named jmr Higgs”
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Oswald
Discussed“so the fact that and a year after he he testified uh he also released a book just titled Oswald”
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The prankster & the conspiracy
The Prankster and the Conspiracy by Adam Gorightly is a detailed nonfiction exploration of the countercultural counterintelligence, fringe ideas, and mysterious figures surrounding the assassination of John F.
Discussed“and I'm going to quote I'm going to quote from the very interesting book the prankster in the conspiracy which is by that that go rightly guy and is a biography of Carrie primarily quote”
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The Love Conspiracy
Discussed“and I'm going to quote I'm going to quote from the very interesting book the prankster in the conspiracy which is by that that go rightly guy and is a biography of Carrie primarily quote”
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern is the foundational text of game theory, establishing mathematical models for decision-making under uncertainty and strategic interactions in economics.
Discussed“this mix of conspiratorial incitement and sincere attempts to push some political change was a conscious aping of a strategy that Greg Hill who wrote Under the name malaclips the younger had come across in a book titled the theory of games and economic behavior”
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