Jay-Z’s “On To The Next One” video is “masonic”. Oh give me a break.

I’m seeing tweets tagged #freemasonry that allege the video for Jay-Z’s “On To The Next One” contains masonic symbols. So I’ve watched the video looking for squares, compasses, paired columns, plumb rules, twelve inch guages, Jacob’s Ladder, acacia sprigs, symbols of mortality… that kind of stuff, familar to masons worldwide and easily researched. A four minute (yes, this was thorough) analysis of the visual motifs by this freemason of fifteen years, revealed none of these old favourites, but plenty of this stuff:

Cars, ink, jewelled skull, “Joker” character in face paint, guy in hood, horse, symmetry, flapping bird, running paint, woman, flaming basketball, milk bottles, dice, middle fingers, antelope skull, yacht, shoe, animal skull, teeth, face paint, black and white symmetrical liquids, three parallel lines, bullets, rosary and crucifix, champagne bottles.

No masonic symbols.

Just plenty of pseudo-occult posturing.

This just makes the point, obvious from the bonkers comments linking freemasonry with non-existent “Illuminati” and satanism, that much of Twitterdom is happy with very flawed information. So flawed, in fact that these ill-informed tweets are  turning me into a gibbering maniac in the mould of Chief Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films.