The True Story of The Bilderberg Group by Daniel Estulin certainly throws a lot of facts at the reader concerning the congregations of powerful people under the rubric of the Bilderberg Group. But mostly, this book consists of a lot of conjecture about what these people are up to, and almost nothing in the way of justifiable assertions of conspiratorial fact.
It is a fact that The Bilderberg Group exists, and that powerful business people, political leaders, and others get together in secretive posh conventions. Furthermore, I have no doubt that at least some in this crowd are bona fide megalomaniacs who fall under Estulin's characterization and would like to enslave the world and send it back to the feudal age. Except, rather than feudal fiefdoms the world would be united under a monolithic world government. Basically, the book makes the claim that the Bilderbergers seek to transform the nations of the world into a world company that enslaves everyone except members of the new aristocracy.
Estulin describes the objectives of the Bilderberg as “a One World Government (World Company) with a single, global marketplace, policed by one world army, and financially regulated by one “World Bank” using one global currency.” (p. 41) According to the author, the Watergate Scandal was contrived by the Bilderbergers so that Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford would do the bidding for David Rockefeller and other alleged Bilderberg masters.
I am not going to delve any further into this nonsense. However, I would like this review to be a commentary that while rejecting the paranoiac claims of the what the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and other groups are up to, secretive organizations of the worlds most powerful leaders do pose potential dangers that need to be monitored and defended against. There does not need to be a worldwide conspiracy of the new aristocracy of the rich and powerful for there to be subterfuge, suppression of information and technology, and monopolistic manipulations of the marketplace that involve mutual backscratching between government, media, business, academia and, let us not forget, the military-industrial-complex.
There is little doubt there there are interrelated, mutually supportive blockages in the world economy and international political structures that thwart far greater human flourishing. The consciousness of the world's people need to become enlightened enough to rid itself of the economic, political, intellectual and spiritual malaise that currently inflicts the world. However, phantasms such as the Bilderberg conspiracy are assuredly false if for no other reason than that the great majority of the world's most powerful people do not have the collective mindset of psychotic dictators. As I mentioned, there might be a few of them in play but for the most part, while many political or financial leaders may be self-interested or even selfish, most of them are not devoid of spirituality, higher conscious and love. Lord Acton's famous quote, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” is widely supported. However, Acton also went on to say that “Great men are almost always bad men,” and this latter sentiment—one with which I very strongly disagree and vehemently do not share—seems to be the sentiment of conspiracy theories concerning the Bilderbergers and their associates. Could the 1984ish vision of Estulin's book ever become a reality? Of course it could, as well as could other nightmarish totalitarian schemes. The True Story of The Bilderberg Group is a fictional anti-utopia, not the book of nonfiction that it purports to be. But like all anti-utopias it is not without value.