Neat formating. I can see why all this Illuminati silliness has so much appeal. Certainly the rich and powerful have a great deal of power. But the conspiracy mindset paints it as being done far more slickly than anyone, rich or powerful, is able to accomplish.

Ya know how they're always showing all this cool Special Forces, Superspy, BS in the movies. How they're so precise and manuveuring flawlessly? Then you see the real Special Forces, spys n' such in real life fucking it all up like little boys playing swat team. (think Somolia/BlackHawk Down) It's kinda the same way with all these supposed 'evil powers' controling the world. They're just not that good at it.

But peoples imaginations take off and they're visualizing Dr. Evil or Goldfinger. I think people enjoy it...enjoy it enough to obscess on it. Think about it--you don't see very many people obscessing on global warming, poor education, the plight of the homeless, etc.....<really big problems...like you do all this cloak and dagger stuff. I guess it makes life seem more like the movies and not so mundane. Oh well, whatever breaks the tedium I guess.