Serious post: A book that I've been reading (slowly, for some months now) describes the peculiar beliefs of plantation farmers in Colombia. Briefly, they believe that by making a pact with the devil, a farmer can improve his productivity and his income, at the cost of cursing the soil that he harvests. The money that he gains is also cursed and can be spent only on temporary amusements and vices. The author claims that this belief grows out of the conceptual tension between ancient communal labor organization and capitalist wage-labor organization.
In the narrative of the "Hollywood Illuminati", do we not see the same themes? An artist can become rich and famous by accepting money from certain shadowy sponsors, absolutely believed to exist even though nobody can point to them, who are also members of a Satanic cult. The artist's work then becomes an expression of Satanism, her riches are cursed to be spent on drugs and decadence, and the devil eventually takes her life.