This is a book trilogy that would mock me for saying that it helped shaped my political and social ideology as well as attitude about sex. This book also helped shape my political and social ideology as well as attitude about sex. ILLUMINATUS! takes the Right Wing racist conspiracy theories of the 1970s (and today) then proceeds to skewer them with a ruthlessness that Mel Brooks would envy. HP Lovecraft, anarchism, James Bond, Captain Nemo...