Pip: Philosophyofgoodnews is back, and this time the subject is not a trend or a talking point — it is a book, a prologue, and a question about who has actually been running things for the last two and a half centuries.

Mara: The post introduces Conspiracy Practitioners, a forthcoming book by Darko Richard Lancelot, laying out its premise, its central character, and the historical evidence the author marshals to support the argument. Let’s start with the prologue itself.

Conspiracy Practitioners — Prologue

Pip: The book opens with a diagnosis of ordinary life — most people, the argument goes, are too comfortable, too incurious, and too defensive when uncomfortable truths arrive. The prologue is asking why that is, and whether it can change.

Mara: The author frames it directly. He writes that we need “a new baptism of that good old-fashioned virtue called suspicion, spiced with common sense.”

Pip: So the book is not a conspiracy theory in the dismissive sense — it is a call for active, critical reading of history. The suspicion being recommended is a tool, not a posture.

Mara: Right, and the prologue is careful to say the book is not about hatred. The stated aim is awareness. The central figure introduced is a historical person given the code name Spartacus and the nickname PERVERT — a late-eighteenth-century figure who was, the text says, a Mason, a Jesuit, and ultimately the founder of his own secret order, established officially on May 1, 1776.

Pip: May 1, 1776 — which is also, the prologue points out, the date International Workers Day was later pegged to in 1890. The author calls that alignment no coincidence.

Mara: The prologue connects this figure to the Spartacus League — Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin — who broke from the German Social Democrats in 1914 and later helped form the Communist Party of Germany. The author reads their chosen name as a deliberate tribute to the original Spartacus.

Pip: The supporting evidence comes from two directions: a personal anecdote about being approached and then blocked by a member of a competing order after visiting a Masonic lodge, and a lengthy 1794 Manifesto from the Duke of Brunswick.

Mara: The Duke’s Manifesto declared that European Masonry had been “completely perverted by the new Order” and called for dissolving all lodges. The author also includes a passage from Disraeli’s 1844 novel Coningsby, in which a character named Sidonia tells Coningsby that “the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

Pip: The prologue closes with a preorder for the full book at twelve dollars before the end-of-May publication date — which means what we have here is the opening argument, not the verdict.

Mara: Exactly. The author frames the whole project as an attempt to move hidden actors into public view — to make the occult legible — and says the goal is spiritual illumination over what he calls Satanic illumination.

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Pip: The thread running through all of this is the same question: what do people miss when they stop being curious?

Mara: And whether naming things clearly — however uncomfortable — is itself a form of resistance. More in the next episode.

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June 15, 2026

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