Abstract
Do your own research! Type ‘NESARA GESARA’ and see what you learn. Or try ‘OPPT UCC’ instead. You will access ideals of sovereignty, emancipation, life, money and wealth. Tutorials about the codes and procedures that are needed in order to subvert the dominant order and proceed to financial salvation. And lessons on the spiritual menaces and economic enmities that justify this newly found path. Mixtures of millennialism, esotericism, conspiratorialism, populism, antisemitism, libertarianism and nationalism can indeed be observed in a number of contemporary movements of economic redemption. These can sometimes afford some troubling expression: cult perhaps, or violence, as in the case of ‘sovereign citizen’ extremism. Some other times they translate into innocuous pastimes, mundane skepticism or dodgy investment schemes. Documenting these practices furthers understanding of the financial element at work in the culture of contemporary conspiratorial, millennialist discourse. But it also opens a promising lead for the anthropology of finance, as it exposes the delirious potentials of ordinary concepts of money, finance, wealth and value. The case of ‘OPPT’ (‘One People’s Public Trust’) provides a testbed for a critical inquiry into the demons inherent in financial imagination.
