"The World Order": Exposé

“The World Order” is a nebulous concept. Its meaning varies from: the totality of modern governments and their agreements, to a group of people who puppeteer modern politicians from the shadows, to a group of not necessarily humans who have apparently controlled all human history. Despite these definitions varying considerably, it is surprisingly easy for one to slide between them, depending on which interpretation seems more reasonable at the time. This is a particularly convenient form of equivocation, the motte-and-bailey maneuver: The motte: governments and corporations obviously cooperate and influence society; The bailey: a secret organization controls all other relevant ones, and has orchestrated all human history; This is one of the mechanisms through which this idea survives, however, the primary one is doublethink, the simultaneous acceptance of mutually exclusive ideas: