I can’t believe stuff like that really goes on.
But the more I read about it, the more I’m convinced that evil people like that are really running the world and I also believe that the satanist/wiccan types are much more widespread than we could even begin to comprehend.
That would explain how the general atmosphere in the general public got so toxic.
Some years back, a friend of mine told me about a mutual minor acquaintance who told him about occult practices in Washington DC that had been transplanted by people from the financial/corporate world. Many of the details - which I unfortunately can't remember - were odd but made us ponder... they didn't seem like anyone would make them up for a fabrication. About all I can remember is that the guy had abruptly gotten out of the fast lane and unburdened himself while passing through his old stomping grounds on the way to anyplace but DC.
When I observed last year that "Eyes Wide Shut" was Kubrick's inadvertent warning, I was being (mostly) serious.