Last night I met a guy at Halloween party who told me he was a Free Mason. He was hilarious and fit right in with my friend group. Upon asking him what the Free Masons are he just said “basically we’re a bunch of dudes who get together for pancakes on Saturday.”
I’ve also heard conspiracies about the group in the past, and I even had an ex coworker once tell me the Free Masons were a cult and were out to get him.
Anyone have any insights? The internet is not very helpful.
I never said we should harass or otherwise target freemasons. They're mostly a peculiar harmless organization that serves as a boogeyman for conspiracy theories nowadays.
My thinking was more along the lines of "what if we had our own kind of institution comparable to this, that wasn't quite a vanguard party itself, but opened up new communistic directions".