Me and the Illuminati

A ten-day dialogue in which a man invited me to join the Illuminati.

I’d gotten a similar DM from someone else months earlier. I’d ignored it, not wanting to somehow accidentally join the Illuminati, which from what I understand is one of the many names of the Deep State (Unacknowledged Special Access Projects, Shadow Government, Breakaway Civilization, New World Order, Cabal, Globalists), a criminal group theorized to have a monopoly on antigravity and other advanced technologies.

This time I responded because I was curious what Cody would say. I was pretty sure this was scam, but a small part of me also imagined it could actually be the Illuminati trying to recruit me. In August, I’d published an essay titled “Antigravity and the Deep State.” I could imagine recruitment being the Deep State’s first-line reaction to possible threats. Doing this initially through DM, anonymously, seemed plausible.

Around this time, I searched the internet for “Illuminati scam” and confirmed it was a scam. This is darkly comical because the Illuminati is known as a very dark organization. People are said to give up their soul to join the Illuminati. You have to be a dark or desperate person—or someone with a really long plan to disrupt the group from the inside—to want to join the Illuminati. The fact that the scam is popular means it works—people are interested in joining the Illuminati.

I remembered an interview on YouTube with an obscure 60-something(?) health influencer named Darko in which he mentioned that the Illuminati had tried to recruit him, offering him a lot of money. At the time, I'd 60 percent believed him and had felt intrigued by how the Illuminati may be trying to recruit even people with small followings, if the person’s messaging was a threat. Now I think Darko might have been subjected to this scam. 

I was amused that he confirmed the Illuminati has access to antigravity.

(I don’t have a lawyer.)

This was surprising and funny. I’d read that the scam involved filling out a form with personal information. And Cody had mentioned a “membership form,” but now there was no form—he had decided, for some reason, to try this item-selling tactic.

$380—interesting, strategic-seeming price.

Around this time, he liked one of my posts. I appreciated this.

He hasn’t responded.