Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic - Peter J. Carroll 2000

Politics III Conspiracy Practise

Any conspiracy lacking internal conspiracies will rule its world.

Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.

Commentary 16

The extreme simplicity of these statements belies both their awesome applicability to conspiracies at all fractal levels and the virtual impossibility of their achievement.

In practise the power of any conspiracy rises and falls in inverse proportion to the power of its internal conspiracies.

Mutual guilt and bribery mainly hold together conspiracies whose ideologies command insufficient loyalty, but this makes them vulnerable.

Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.

Most semi-secret societies have no secrets to protect except the embarrassing foolishness of their own practices.

Truly secret societies will usually have initiation practices which serve to incriminate applicants.