What I don’t understand is the idea that powerful/influential people wouldn’t want to meet one another and try thereby to influence other powerful influential people.
What, in other words is surprising about this? In my town the Rotary Club amounts to the same thing. Is it a conspiracy, or is it really just networking?
True. In our little county there is the “Inns of Court.” I have been asked why I don’t campaign for an invitation. It’s named after a judge who killed his wife and then shot himself. Somehow that seems creepy to me.
When there’s that much wealth and influence discussing how they can “make us better”, I get a little suspicious. Maybe it’s just me. If it’s all innocent, why the fence and armed security? I guess to keep out the riff raff and peons.