Why do so many people buy into the New Age thinking of obvious fraudsters such as David Icke?

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Many of these people also seem to be the same breed who get their 'knowledge' from spurious YouTube videos, from people who have created videos just selling what they've watched from someone else, who the creator of those videos watched from someone else... and so the cycle goes on.

David Icke has openly acknowledged the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an antisemitic propaganda tool, and has even flirted with holocaust denial and has been associated with fascist groups. He rants about the ridiculous notion of reptilians from outer space and even announced himself as the son of God.

How can anyone take dangerously unstable people like this seriously?


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And yes, I am posting this in Mythology & Folklore. Why? Because although there are sane people in this section, it seems like the biggest gathering place on Yahoo! Answers for such unbalanced individuals.

Answer 1

Liam, conspiracy theorists are actually quite common, though few are as outspoken as David Icke. If Christopher Hitchens is correct, conspiracy theorists are unavoidable in a media-saturated, diverse population. My observations parallel those of the sociologists on this matter. Reasoning based on conspiracy theory, as irrational as it appears to most people, comes from very human tendencies. Most people are looking for self-contained, dramatic explanations because they relieve the tension of continuing to parse difficult questions that have no easy, or definite, answers; they want "closure"! Large social phenomena are irreducibly complex, and this type of reasoning overrides the discomfort of trying, and inevitably failing, to come to grip with large, and multifaceted, issues. Conspiracy theory is more common amongst people who, for one reason or another, feel powerless in a complex world. They tend to ascribe the social phenomena that distress them to agents lying properly outside of society, hence Icke's "reptilians." All UFO believers buy into a small class of distinct projections, with the common element being the reptilian appearance of their aliens... they share a point of origin with the Serpent of Genesis, and the archetype is a default one in individuals growing up in predominantly Judaeo-Christian cultures, even if they have subsequently renounced that culture. The fringes of society, left and right, coalesce in a sort of fusion paranoia. It should be noted that there is a statistical correlation with schizotypal personality disorder. May I point out that as ridiculous as Icke is, he has garnered a great deal of attention for his misconstructions; he has written several books (flights of fancy, really) and has benefited from lucrative lunacy! What I find most troubling is that the mainstream media give him as much attention as they do, and that he widens the window of credulity so substantially that even marginally distorted, and unproven, assertions look reasonable and gain credence. If he hasn't himself authored the "slippery slope," he has applied grease after the fact!

Answer 2

God created extraterrestrial beings throughout the evolutionary technique. Icke's hypothesis has no foundation. If we learn the Bible and evaluate it with greater historical bills, we are in a position to deduce that the Nefilim have been extraterrestrial beings. They developed in the past us human beings yet sometime interior the previous germs from their planet grew to become into imparted to the greater youthful Earth such that evolution began right here too. while the Nefilim desperate to ensure earth, they got here across progressed hominids. They certain upon it their genetic image. The hybrid hominid-nefilim grew to become present day guy. How the Nefililim developed of their domicile planet is a secret nonetheless.

Answer 3

new age has nothing to do with david icke. an yes new age is real an i am more sane then you could ever hope to be,