by hoi.polloi on June 5th, 2015, 8:31 pm
Well, to be fair, he does use language like "Reality: The Movie" when sarcastically referring to television news. And that's a useful term. His points about 9/11 being bullocks largely holds up because, if you boil 9/11 down to its simplest form, saying something like, "It's all BS" is pretty darn close to the truth.
The problem is he has this very British thing going on: politeness and properness is more important than truth — and even more important than a truth we can all verify (according to his behavior) is personal religious truth that nobody can verify.
That's kind of the opposite of the policy we have here, where we need truths we can all verify regardless of personal religious belief or concepts of politeness.
David Icke himself doesn't tell people about the technical facts about fake news: the actors, the world of politics and lying that he was a part of, the advertising and public relations campaigns and the multiple identities and reinvented identities that come with that territory, the scheming performance qualities of large personalities (like himself), the marketing, basic non-magical subliminal attacks, hypnosis, CGI, algorithms, artificial intelligence, digital compositing, augmented reality, virtual reality, chroma-keying, military simulations, writings on simulations, war theory, cryptography software, compression, digital masking, EXIF data, script writing, sound editing, and so on. These are modern techniques and ideas that even the slowest people in our society could understand if he gave over to the patient process of explaining them better than, "It's all a grand puppet show!" or "It's all a huge illusion!"
Why not just discuss dishonesty, acting and lying? Too close to home for him?
However, there are also more fishy things about him, in my opinion. He appears to be putting on a dramatic act at times, it's unclear to me whether he has more make up than normal for a big show-biz person (is his "arthritis" legit?) and he hasn't put two puzzle pieces together and realized his "reporter" Luke Rudowski's doppelganger plays a vicsim in the 9/11 drama. Do you think this is a coincidence? He just doesn't vet his reporters? Or is his role to save the reputations of deep covert agents that failed, and herald them as misunderstood heroes — revive them as neo-celebrities?
At best, he wakes some people up, who move on, and he makes other people feel dependent on thought leaders and their hunches instead of encouraging people and saying, as we try to do, "You can do it. You can research anything for yourself and share it with your community using practical knowledge that you inherently have!"
At worst, David Icke really is just another paid perp like Alex Jones, George Noory or a 9/11 "Truther" type capitalizing on fear and mistrust and the public's religious yearnings for a savior, while perhaps spouting the latest placating wisdom given to him by an unquestioned, liberal corner of one of Her Majesty's research groups. Hard to say, though, and I prefer not to think the worst if I think of it at all.