Futuwwa
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The problem with the idea of a mysterious elite is not they explain too little, but they explain far, far too much. Anything and anyone can be made to fit. Any prediction can be made – and quietly reinvented if it turns out to be inaccurate.
This.
The basic premise behind the entire "NWO" conspiracy, that there's an ill-defined and invisible but all-powerful group of people cooperating to take over the world and establish themselves as its masters, is utterly worthless as far as theories go. It can't be disproven, it can predict absolutely nothing, and it can be used to explain pretty much anything that happens after the fact.
And if no hypothetical event can prove a theory wrong, then it follows that the fact that the theory manages to explain what has happened does in no way support the notion that the theory is true.
Within the philosophy of science, that's called the problem of induction. For every set of observed facts, there is an infinite number of possible theories that would explain them. Thus, the fact that your particular theory also manages to do it proves, in itself, nothing.
If it were just speculation maybe it wouldn’t matter. But the ‘secret elite’ theory has a very nasty side to it. In following it, you’re keeping company with a profoundly unattractive range of Neo Nazis and other extreme right wing groups. This theory comes straight out of Nazi anti-semitism, as well as other racist/genocidal polemicists who laid the ground for them. Is that the place you really want to be?
This part, however, does you no credit. This is a guilt by association fallacy, and an annoying one at that. As for the rest of your post though, it was full of awesome and win, and something that should have been said a long time ago. I'll grant you reputation for it, and I encourage everyone else to do the same.