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I'll answer with a book, which is Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.

To (poorly) summarize the book, which has nothing directly to do with Jews, the protagonists create an imaginary secret society to take over the world conspiracy theory style for the sheer role playing hell of it, and they LARP the heck out of it until the world responds back to them as if they're real, with some pretty chilly consequences. Sorcerers Apprentice and "don't call up what ye can't put down" and all that kind of stuff. Heck of an interesting book.

So say you wanted to make an imaginary secret society to take over the world kinda like Eco's book. So your secret society would be closed to outsiders, foreign language, unusual rites, unusual lifestyle and food requirements, a cultural belief in prioritizing taking over finance, academics, mass communication and PR, entertainment, economics, professions in general so as to lead the society in ways that help your group over all others. Distributed all over the world including in revolutionary areas, communist areas. Very racially conscious WRT helping each other out in preference over other races (opposite of devoutly progressive white people). In, but eternally intentionally separate from, the community (opposite of a melting pot culture). Add a few centuries of interesting historical behavior such as usury at both high and low levels of society and some serious allegiance issues with the community you're temporarily residing in. In other words they're LARPing as something right out of a conspiracy theory book. So that's the imaginary theoretical conspiracy theory subject... which happens to sound culturally Jewish, the above is just their thing, what they do.

Groups that don't have cultural problems generally do the opposite of the Jews. They abandon the old language, maybe even the old countries religion. Cut back on the traditional food or add ethnic recipes to the local mix either way the food isn't unusual anymore. Don't try to run the place at least until you're a member of the place. Be fair to the locals not your own people first above all the locals. Patriotic to the local country first and back home a distant second. None of that is religiously or culturally possible to Jews, so they tend of have a bit of a rough time fitting in.

The moral of the Eco book is if you LARP, if you LARP really hard, the truth no longer matters and the worlds gonna come down on you like a stack of bricks, and right or wrong has little to do with how much the impact is gonna hurt. Welcome to human nature.



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