10 Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That Prove The Illuminati Are Real
6. HG Wells Says So
HG Wells was a smart man. A science fiction author writing all the way back in Victorian times, he nonetheless managed to accurately predict the invention of nuclear weapons, the Moon landing, genetic engineering, and lasers. Then again he also thought we'd have had time travel capabilities and been invaded by Martians with a lethal aversion to the common cold by now, too, so we guess he wasn't perfect. He managed to be on the money more often than Nostradamus, so we're willing to give old Wellsy the benefit of the doubt. Which is also why we tend to give more credibility to his claims that there's a secret society controlling all of existence from behind the scenes than, say, a fifteen year old writing illegibly about the brainwashing powers of the Big Bang Theory on his Tumblr. Back in the day, the New World Order was a nice, fun term for a return to a balanced power and new ways of political thinking after the two world wars. Wells decided to re-appropriate the phrase and used it to describe the establishment of a technocratic world state and planned economy in his homonymous book which he hoped would bring about such a revolution of the state of the globe, with his plans catching on in some Socialist circles. Unfortunately Wells didn't have the proper time to commit to his plan of radically changing the world by starting up a shadowy behind-the-scenes cabal with a bunch of his influential mates, but it's further proof that people have taken the idea seriously in the past. And since Wells prefigured so many future developments by a good few decades, wouldn't now be right around the time that actual New World Order should be taking place...?
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