Shadowstar38 said:
Um. Okay. Can someone explain what the fuck these people are suppose to be? Because I see youtube comments all the time accusing everyone from Jay Z to Usher as being a member of this thing.
The Illuminati of historical record was a late 18th century political group in Bavaria that attempted to overthrow the local government. They were inspired by and held to the same ideals used by the founders of the USA, who were in the middle of their revolution at the time the Illuminati were founded.
Unlike the US revolution however, the Bavarian Illuminati were decimated. Less than nine years after its founding, every single member was either arrested, dead, or in hiding. Thus ends the TRUE tale of the Illuminati.
Where it gets starts to get weird is about 20 years after this event. A fiction writer writes a book claiming that the movement is still active, and somehow have gone from being beaten underdogs to masters of manipulation embedded in various positions of power. For some inexplicable reason, people believe him, and the legend has been annoyingly impossible to get rid of since.
These days, the Illuminati are basically synonymous with government conspiracies. For every shady story about some nebulous THEM f***ing with the lives of the people, from mind control additives in the water to maliciously increased monetary inflation, there is at least one version of it with the Illuminati blamed for everything.
Personally, I find it bitterly ironic that the tales concerning the Illuminati involve them doing things the actual people who were involved would have fought tooth and nail against.