Is Lady Gaga a Satanist Illuminati Slave?

The Illuminati-in-pop meme has tremendous traction. References to the secret society began popping up in hip-hop songs back in the early ?90s, but with the rise of broadband Internet, Illuminati conspiracies have enjoyed the same steroidal super-boost as pornography and cat photography. The theorists occupy music?s margins, and yet their message has splashed into mainstream waters. In late 2009, a CNN reporter saw fit to ask Lady Gaga to address the Illuminati rumors (she balked at the question). Rihanna mockingly acknowledged accusations of Illuminati entanglement in her ?S&M? video. (Fake headlines flash onscreen describing her as a ?Princess of the Illuminati.?) And on a 2011 song with Rick Ross (who may also be under Illuminati control), Jay-Z dedicated a verse to denying his membership in the Freemasons: ?I said I was amazing, not that I?m a Mason.?

Who are the Illuminati, and why are so many pop-music observers obsessed with them? The Illuminati were an actual group, founded in Bavaria in the late 18^th century by a philosopher and law professor named Adam Weishaupt. In The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, the historian Frederick C. Beiser describes the Illuminati as ?a secret society devoted to the cause of political reform and Aufkl?rung?? the German Enlightenment. In Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, the author Glen Alexander Magee notes that the group was marked by its ?opposition to traditional religion, superstition, and feudalism? and its ?advocacy of scientific rationalism and the rights of man.? It is hard to say precisely why the Illuminati became wedded in the paranoid mind with devil worship, but seeming reasons include Weishaupt?s anticlerical streak and a popular ?history? of Freemasonry written in the late 19^th century by Frenchman L?o Taxil, who purported to expose Masons? Satanic rituals. (Taxil later revealed that his ?journalism? was actually a satirical hoax.) The melding of secret societies and occultism persists today, of course, in pop-cultural representations of creepy, chamber-congregating Skull and Bones members or masked, orgy-prone captains of industry in Kubrick?s Eyes Wide Shut.

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