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KON4M 99
July 1999
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John Madziarczyk
You guys at The Konformist have probably seen Eyes Wide Shut, but I figured I should throw my two cents in anyways......Well, I don't know about Kubrick dying because of portraying elites having sex, but I think it's pretty clear that Kubrick was using the idea of the Illuminati as a thematic device. Consider: the place where this 'group sex' occurs is at a different amazingly fancy house each time, the piano player is blindfolded during it.....more importantly, what those 'group sex' accounts leave out is that it isn't just a bunch of rich people getting off, it's all ceremonial. Yeah, complete with officials in semi-ecclaisiastical garb, ritual masks, and chanting in an unknown language. The head guy walks around a circle of cloaked and hooded women in masks, censes them, and bangs his staff on the ground. I'm not too familiar with all the Illuminati history, but at least in Robert Anton Wilson's books wasn't group ritual sex part of the illuminati, plus in Crowley's accounts of various 'Rosicrucian' gatherings that he attended with the German leaders of the original OTO? The scene is just visually overwhelming, and I don't mean because of the women, really. And I don't think that he was commenting on anything 'real' working from experience or trying to tell anyone anything, the Illuminati serve to wake up this yuppie to the fact that there are other things in this world besides cute little dinner parties, vacations on Martha's Vinyard, and nice smooth upperclass whitebread life in general. It is called Eyes Wide Shut, after all.
