David Icke fascinates me. This dude was a fairly well known sports media personality in England about 20 years ago and then one day he just gets a glimpse of how it all works and decides to explain to everyone "who and what is controlling the world".
What intrigues me the most about him personally is how a "normal" guy can just become this totally "whacko" guy and claim there are royal bloodlines and even beings in another dimension that control the energy of this dimension (mostly creating an environment in our reality that generates a negative - war, fear, hate, divide, hunger, death, etc... - energy that is the perfect room temp for these beings in the alternate dimension) and we are basically slave labor, unbeknownst to us.
Setting my draw to Icke personally aside, what truly gets my attention about his specific message is how spot on his assessment of our reality happens to be. Either this guy really has seen the "truth" (very very doubtful to me but certainly possible) or he is pulling some type of scam on people to live a very comfortable life style (way more plausible to me and another level of intrigue is added because I ponder the thought of consciously lying to people and what that must be like to live an entire lifetime in that fashion).
So even though I don't necessarily buy into Icke's entire story, I do think he's genius for the tale he's concocted. It's very similar to my take on many parts of The Bible, I agree with a lot of the means (mostly the things Jesus actually talked about) but not the end, as we know it. There is a "shark jump" somewhere along the way and the end is unrecognizable from the means, but that doesn't mean the entire message is bunk. I would even go as far as to say the entire message might be solid and useful it is just the end product or conclusion that was interpreted is flawed or unsubstantiated. It's hard for many people to grasp the concept that all of the parts independently are sound but the composition of all the pieces as a whole is unsound. I challenge those people to imagine five very skilled and talented musicians. One could accurately state each of these artists are very good musicians but that doesn't equate to saying all five of them make a great band together. That's just a false conclusion, a bad interpretation of reality.
In the case of Icke's account of "how it all works" I tend to land where I usually land when someone claims they know it all, I highly doubt them. But that doesn't mean he hasn't gotten a lot of the components of our reality right. In fact, I think he has most of our reality quite right. He constantly focuses on the divide between the masses, the people that should truly have all of the power simply based on the math alone, that allows the few to control the many.
No where can I find a better example of Icke's narration than simply examining our own American political system. Even if there aren't aliens in another dimension that purposefully create an atmosphere of chaos and distraction, an unsound interpretation of the end, there still exists a purposefully created atmosphere of chaos and distraction, a sound observation of the means. While the powers that be grant themselves more power (Patriot Acts, raises, ridiculous dollar amounts acquired in small, private fund raisers attended by the wealthy, legislation that makes it harder to vote, companies they own being merged and funded and supported by the minions) in one hand, the other hand distracts us with meaningless rhetoric and strokes our emotional heart strings encouraging us to bicker and divide (gay rights, health care, public transportation, racially motivated crimes, media bias, religious strife, bird flu, mad cow, obesity, gas prices, war, terrorism, nationalism, stateism, cityism, gated neighborhoodism).
If Icke is right and there are aliens in an unseen dimension setting their thermostat to "negative Earth energy" and our only chance of defeating them and freeing ourselves is to love one another and not invest in the distractions then so be it. But even if he's got the end wrong how can it still hurt to use this formula just in case he's right? We can wager, in the Pascalian sense, that Icke's right and recognize the oneness of our reality and invest in knowledge and love and compassion and it's a win win situation either way.
In the video below it starts off a little slow. I've seen so many Icke interviews I really didn't hear anything new. If you don't feel like investing ten minutes into the video I would encourage you to start at the six minute mark, it starts getting interesting there. If you don't want to invest three minutes and thirty seconds in the video then I point you toward the final option of picking up at the eight minute thirty second mark and watching the last minute. I just don't see how his words or his description of our atmosphere aren't true no matter if there really is a magical wizard or a small old man behind the curtain.
