Lions, Mooses, and Masons

An overview of so-called secret societies, written from the perspective of a curio collector.

I can save you the time, though: they're overgrown tree-house clubs, the lot of them. I guess it's because I'm not a "joiner," but I've never seen the attraction of so-called exclusive or elite clubs, even as a child. Hell, I found the Cub Scouts annoying, as I'd much rather have been doing something I wanted to do than acting as a cog in their master plan to control the world's plastic bead supply. The only "order" to which I belong is the Golden Shellbacks -- and that wasn't by choice: I was trapped on the damned boat.

I suppose some people just crave the false sense of significance such groups provide. Anyway, the article is an interesting primer which briefly covers the history of fraternal orders and debunks all the hocus-pocus and conquer-the-world nonsense.