I unlike most posters here, have actually attended CFR meetings, and know the "truth." What is the truth? That is for me to know, and you to find out. But electricity thing strikes me as a magic act, and the results of plugging in, is one factlet, more than any other, that I think is the most persuasive for the God believers to adduce to the God-less, e.g., moi.
Wow, I'm just so totally, insanely jealous of you!!! Not.
Even if I were invited to go to one of these things, which I never would be, I'd have no interest in going whatsoever. Listening to this conglomeration of dippy academic utopians, trust fund babies, and greedy SOBs would almost certainly make me want to throw up.
Granted, most of them go to the Ivy League schools and are connected to the moon, but they really aren't half as smart or special as they think they are. I'd take advice from the average guy in the south or the midwest any day.