Can anyone give me a read on Rotary? I vaguely remember it being kinda stuffy and quasi-religious? I found out a co-worker goes to Rotary so I looked up their website and it looks pretty good/benign? No religious/missionary overtones that I could see. Thoughts?
Old school Socialite club that used to donate eyeglasses to the poor as their philantropic niche. They also build a lot of monuments to themselves all over the place. Some of which don't even name themselves after the Rotary Club even, like lion statues.
Secular philanthropy for boring rich old people who like to eat spaghetti in a ballroom together and pat each other on the back. Got it.
I have seen some american people try to use the Rotary Club as some sort of WEF NWO conspiracy but I think they get hit with the nerd emoji and it doesn't stick because its apparently kinda boring. It's like a global version of a mid level masonic lodge that likes to spread plaques and monuments everywhere it goes.
Yeah, they do give off some mason-lite vibes, but seem boring and ultimately harmless. Having a bunch of lion statues around sounds okay. I like lions.
It's where the local gentry - provincial bourgeoisie, think car dealership owners - go to excise their moral horror at being bourgeoisie. They'll have like a once a week luncheon, it'll cost money, they usually have a more formal dress code. They'll send kids abroad to an international school (sometimes their own kids) and pay for it, they'll do charity, they talk to members and network like "hey, Bill, I need a lawyer to write up my contract for the purchase of a business can you do it?"
It's like a masonic lodge but without the masonic stuff and women can join. There are a bunch of monuments all over the world, they are just rich people being weird.
It's "philanthropy". Rich people being magnanimous with the wealth they've expropriated.
They're really big fans of Mazdas, old telephones, and those really big snowplows on the front of trains in the mountains.
