To be honest you just sound like someone who's head is so buried in the sand you can't see the wood for the trees, inflamatory remarks about David Icke supporting racism are completly ridiculous bruv, in fact propoganda tactics like this are synonomous with fascism and fascist regimes throughout history.Joe Muggs wrote:People DO give them credibility though, that's just the problem.manray wrote:I'd throw in Big Brother, MTV and 95% of the rest as well.Joe Muggs wrote:Anyway more to the point, that kind of conspiracy bollocks is the antithesis of proper engagement with the world.
I don't mind conspiracy theorists too much, by and large they are sidelined as wackos so nobody gives them any credibility but spend 5 minutes reading the tabloids....
Big Brother and MTV might be dumb, pacifying entertainment, but they don't actually encourage people to believe in fantasyland stuff.
But in general the world is so full of people who believe in complete fucking fairyland nonsense. Whether it's following radical preachers, signing up for Kaballah or Scientology, spending £££££ on homeopathy and reiki healing, being anti-evolution, or believing - as a worrying number of people do - that "Jews control the media" or "America engineered 9-11", the current appetite that people have to swallow absolutely anything rather than deal with the grim realities of life is a bit scary.
It's like the world's been taken over by a bunch of hippie bullshit artists or something.
This book should be required reading in schools:
Educate yourself on something before writing it off, much of what he says makes a lot of sense once you open your mind a little.