The Secret Symbols of Dan Brown

Last night I watched “Dateline’s” Matt Lauer interview Dan Brown who has written a new thriller about Masonic symbols and evil magic in the corridors of Washington. “Wow!” I thought. “This is almost middle brow!” Now let’s be straight: I’m no cuff shooting academic who holds his head upwards at sharp angles. Hell, I even like “low brow” stuff like The Three Stooges though only when they’re tormenting academics or the rich and of course that means I like “the Stooges” most of the time. 

Silly Moi! That thar interview warn’t middle brow t’all!

Nope Skeezix! It was precisely in the wheel house of Dateline’s motto which you’ll find on their web site: “News stories about crime, celebrity, and health…”

If you have nothing better to do you can go to the interview link above and troll the salt flats of lurid alchemical sophistry that comprise most of Mr. Brown’s rendering of Masonic symbolism and Masonic ideas–matters that he holds are entirely a sub rosa trail of bread crumbs in the forest of conspiracies that “is” America. “Wow!” I thought. “This is almost a 1970’s college conversation with pot heads!”

Yep! I remember those conversations well.

“Hey Man! Have you ever looked close at the Marlboro cigarette pack? Yeah Man! There’s a little key that points east! Yeah Man! That means Lyndon Johnson killed J.F.K.!”

“Wow! Dude! You’re trippin’ me out!”

“Yeah! The Marlboro Man was really L.B.J. and he got the key to the East Coast Establishment after he killed Kennedy!”

If you weren’t in college in the 70’s that’s pretty much the way things went. “Woah! Dude! You’re gonna need a roach clip for that!”

All Matt Lauer and Dan Brown needed was a big, fat Doobie!

S.K.

Author: stevekuusisto

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