Sacred Cows - the 'Bo'-vine

Well you're all reasonable people here, I know. I know that you realize that symbols are used all the time by human beings, and by all kinds of groups, but these symbols are more often than not, just simple and quite mundane appropriations of shapes and ideas in graphics - almost caricatures, in most cases.

And for the most part too, they are contemporaneous adaptions of a fairly limited set of long-in-the-tooth basic symbols.

Depending on how well-read or well-educated whoever is doing the 'symbol appropriation,' you will get varying degrees of linkage to traditional meanings, and more than just a little often - you will get 'mash-ups,' a blending and even a jamming-up of totally contradictory ideas and their representative signs and symbols.

'The Owl of Minerva?' -
it's not the right owl, though

Things turn into fashions and then fads very quickly. That is just the way it is with human society. 

Today's 'Jay-Z is an Illuminati puppet' is tomorrow's 'who's Jay-Z?!'

The fact is, the Rotary Club plants trees in semi-circles all over the world, not just in someplace called 'Bohemian Grove' - and all of these Rotarian tree places are also called 'groves.' Usually, they commemorate the work of volunteers to some fairly banal social cause or other.

Okay I can see how it's possible to look at a lot of recent modern pop music and stage acts and so on, and see that it draws an awful lot on what is very commonly supposed to be some sinister imagery, be it black magic, or from pop satanism or satanic folklore, or more ancient Egyptian motifs.

A relatively wise-headed rapper recently said that he believed the 'Illuminati' imagery in rap music and other entertainment forms sprang from people just generally being interested and entertained by intrigue, and controversy, and hints of the mysterious, and of secret things.

People are not really interested in actual secret things. They're not very good at keeping secrets in the first place!

The only kind of secret that can be maintained is one that requires inquirers to take a lot of time and patience to understand in the first place - something the requires a deep commitment of time and brainpower. 

Yes there are sinister secrets and sinister organizations, and dangerous groups and very dangerous people - but I'm afraid Katy Perry and Jay-Z and/or their production companies are not examples of these. 

For one thing, they mess up a lot of the 'symbology' itself and alter the real hidden meanings - and to me it often looks like by sheer accident.

...humor - just underlining it for the too serious

Where you will not see hidden sinister symbols and meanings altered or messed around with though, is in the movie and video and print ads coming from some of the world's most prominent Madison Avenue advertising consultants.

These things are a quantum leap away from pop entertainment and you won't see the mixing up of signs and symbols here. 'Bohemian' and 'Grove' for instance, actually are contradictory occult or arcane words... I've mentioned that before.

You have to be very astute and observant and quick and knowledgeable to catch what Madison Avenue does in its productions.

Those myriad Christian-type commentators who rapidly jump at shadows and label everything with the 'Evil' brush and appear to think everyone is surrounded by dark forces all the time in the guise of anything and everything, are really serving only to hide all the more so, what is truly capable of doing damage to people - and this is whether you care to say to their lives as well as their 'souls.'

The dangerous forms of propaganda dis-empower the individual at every turn. That is the ideology and the mechanism used for keeping power.  

There is a 'they' all right.

They are not after self-expression, as musicians and artists are. They are after the maintenance of what they perceive is an entitlement to power.

Blindly follow an 'expert' allowed to take the mic and the stage in today's media and you are falling into this particular rabbit-hole. Believe me, you will have cherished sacred cows too...

Of course I cannot expect people to give up their own personal sacred cows. Your personal sacred cow. And I don't expect it. 

I expect you to be surprised, when your sacred cow is sacrificed. But you won't be able to say you were never warned. Look to your own sacred cows. Are they really who you think they are?