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Last month, I had that moment every parent¹ dreams of. My daughter asked me, “what’s ‘the Illuminati’?”

It was fun explaining the whole concept of secret societies and conspiracy theories in terms that would be intelligible to an 8-year-old. My kids (her brother is her twin) had a hard idea with the whole concept of secretly coercing somebody to do something that’s not in their interests.



Wait till they find out about the parental concept of secretly coercing somebody to do something that is in their interests!


Then how anytime you feel you made a decision it was actually the Illuminati that coerced you into that decision making you believe you came up with it yourself.


Oh, man what a perfect opportunity!

Why explain when you can play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati_(game)

www.sjgames.com


Hmm, half of what I told them was derived from the game (and The Illuminatus! Trilogy). I think they might be just old enough to play the game (I’ll have to check for any cards I might need to hold back though).




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