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December 06, 2015

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MinM » 27 Apr 2013 15:38 wrote:Of course the Lance deHaven-Smiths of the world will never be allowed to lend legitimacy to 'conspiracies' .. Instead crackpots and self-promoters like Glenn Beck and Alex Jones...

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elfismiles » 12 Dec 2015 16:16 wrote:

‘We Value Experience’: Can a Secret Society Become a Business?
Jeff Hull’s Latitude Society explores the possibilities of art, intimacy, experience, and membership.
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But The Latitude also—and this is where it sets itself apart from other experiential entertainment, especially Jejune—allows and encourages “compeers” to create their own experiences. In Latitude verbiage, these are known as “Autonomous Gatherings,” and they can range from terrarium building workshops, to tarot card readings, or just drinks in a dark, private section of the bar. “You might not have known someone who did this kind of woodworking or programming or writing before,” said Meler. “And that becomes a new organic relationship.”

On the surface, the existence of these “gatherings” seem like simply a way for creative folk to find like-minded people to hang with, which, while a not-always-easy proposition no matter the city you live in, it’s not a paradigm shift in social connectivity.

But there’s also the unique vetting process that’s taken place. These people at this function, or this workshop, or this bar, they’ve been on the message board forum, they’ve been to a “praxis” or two, they’ve made it through Book One, they’ve slid down the same “rabbit hole” as you. At the very least, someone else thought highly enough of them to include them in this club. “It makes it unifying,” says Hull. “It’s the one thing you know, that everyone else has been initiated. I’ve been very good at not compromising that.”

This “curated community” is not a bonus side effect of the design, but something baked into its DNA. After his dream, after Jejune’s final event, Hull invited a small group to, as he puts it, his “monastic woods setting” in Mendocino. “We’re, like, literally off in the forest in a yurt,” he says. He set the tone by sending vague invitations about a three-day summit in the deep forest to “consider the next phases of The Latitude’s development,” acting as if this group had existed for hundreds of years. “Like the Masons, the Knights Templar, Illuminati,” says Hull. “I’m interested in the idea that somebody’s a puppeteer of reality. A lot of times it’s the discussion of the New World Order, or The Federal Bank, or the Bilderberg Group. I have this philosophy that’s like, it’s us. We’re the ones building reality.”

Hull called the Mendocino group The Elders Council, and they began painting the broad strokes of what this new experience would be. “It wasn’t just pretending a community, or pretending that you were being transported. It was actually, we can transport people and build a real community around this,” he says. The initial twelve invited four each, and so on, for the next three years. That’s how The Latitude Society was built.

We married out of love, we were just 20 years old. Now, 7 years later, I am contemplating divorce. All my husband does all day long is talk about conspiracy theories (things like: 9/11 is an inside job, there's concentration camps being build in the US, the chemtrails are there to make us all dumb, fluoride is put in the water to control our brains so we can be more easily be manipulated, the world economy will crash, we must move in an area with lots of land so we can grow our own food, etc).

My husband dedicates all day and night to this stuff. I am feeling alone in everything. He doesn't help me at all with any household duties. I do everything, from shopping, cleaning, cooking, to paying the bills, etc. When I tell him that, he's saying he's actually doing a lot of work by keeping us informed through his research. My husband is failing his graduate school because he doesn't study since he's busy "researching" all the horrible things that he says will happen. He has no ambition and no goals and tells me he's not a "sheep" of the elites/New world order.

I'm just 27 but feel much older. He makes everything in life gloomy, there's nothing to look forward to. We can't have a normal conversation, we can't go and enjoy a nice day, we can't do anything without him talking of this stuff. I feel depressed, very depressed. I was a happy girl but now I can't recognize myself. I've told him for many, many times that I don't want to hear these things and that I need him to be a supportive, hard working husband, but he tells me that I'm just a "sheep" who needs to be taken out of the fairy-tale land in which I live. Sometimes he gets mad and yells and swears seeing how "ignorant" I am. It's gotten to the point where I don't want to be near him anymore because I already know what he'll be talking about. Home should be a place where one can relax and feel good but for me it's no longer like that.

Gee are we married to the same man? It really sounds like you are describing my husband. It started about 2 years ago and has just gotten to be progressively worse. He thinks everything even the weather is being controlled by something. He really has taken the joy out of life for me. I am such and upbeat person, but this is insanity. I believe that our government isn't always the best, but I am not going to sit and just be frantic about all the worldly thing going on. If my husband put as much effort into our relationship as he does this conspiracy crap, we might have a great marriage.

I've been with him 12 years and I really just don't know what to say about this one. I understand where you are coming from.

I think I am in same boat, only with children. My husband is on the computer all the time, I thought he had a girlfriend but now know he is only on [deleted].

He believes all that conspiracy crap totally! I cant believe he can be so gullible. He is impossible to talk to about anything. He says I am picking on him if I disagree or ask where he got some information from.

Yesterday he starts spouting Nazi stuff! I dont know who he is anymore. He hates everybody. He picks fights with salesmen and waiters.

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Are social primates really designed for scale awareness beyond their families and communities? Another way of saying that: does building and keeping large-scale mental models of huge institutions and geopolitical interactions "break" us, to some extent, in terms of our evolutionary imperatives and even our basic biology? Do pessimist researchers live long, healthy lives? Do people who think the future is a slaughterhouse have kids, generally speaking?

I think I am in same boat, only with children. My husband is on the computer all the time, I thought he had a girlfriend but now know he is only on [deleted].
He believes all that conspiracy crap totally! I cant believe he can be so gullible. He is impossible to talk to about anything. He says I am picking on him if I disagree or ask where he got some information from.Yesterday he starts spouting Nazi stuff! I dont know who he is anymore. He hates everybody. He picks fights with salesmen and waiters.

tapitsbo » 12 Dec 2015 17:52 wrote:I guess you're describing something like the seeds of cults who traumatize their kids to make them strong - and collapse the complexity of large-scale awareness into mystical beliefs about creating reality or whatever...

Are social primates really designed for scale awareness beyond their families and communities? Another way of saying that: does building and keeping large-scale mental models of huge institutions and geopolitical interactions "break" us, to some extent, in terms of our evolutionary imperatives and even our basic biology? Do pessimist researchers live long, healthy lives? Do people who think the future is a slaughterhouse have kids, generally speaking?