/lit/ - Literature

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Keep in mind that despite what anyone says, there's no cabal of people controlling anything. When you're working with massive systems like modern governmental institutions, their sheer size and complexity means that no one person or group can control the whole thing. Instead, it's usually a collection of groups, and the decisions of said institution are a result of their various wills and concessions, their wants also a result of their membership's wills and concessions. Likewise, when they do want to carry out their will, they don't rely on certainties but on probabilities. They create circumstances and arrange people in such a way that the probability of them doing what is desired is as high as possible.

So, why the CIA might want to fuck with spirituality isn't really answerable. The calculus that goes into it has so many variables. More than likely, it's just to hamstring large populations of people, as most New Age spiritual systems lack coherence, and if they have coherence, their foundations aren't secure, they have no tradition.

Think of a salesman, how does he sell to people? The first thing he does is create uncertainty, tells them about a problem they might have not foreseen, or new information that only he's privy too. This uncertainty is what gives him leverage to feed information to that person to act in a way he wants. To do this to a large population, you must first destroy their tradition, and there is no stronger tether of tradition than mainstream religion.