David Icke has millions of fans. And I get that. His stories are fantastic. Literally. People like the former football player's stories for the same reason they love the stories of J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien and those of George R. Martin: it's nice to - if even for an hour or so - escape to another realm of existence. Forget about everyday problems, ailments, heartache and whatever bothers us.
As a teen I ate up the stories of Erich von Däniken: Humans are a failed alien experiment? Cool!
I loved the Superman comics:
An alien being with superpowers that helped us fight the nazis? Amazing stories!
Just like: 'Some powerful people on Earth are secretly alien lizardmen who want to kill us all!'
David Icke may have had too many football balls hit his amygdala. It's the spot in our brain that houses our conscious, the 'voice in our head'. When it malfunctions, we can't tell right from wrong, a lie from the truth.
Either way, his ideas have been debunked over and over again and his followers believe them like people who believe everything in the books of Dan Brown is reality. Take his rocksteady believe that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is the real story of how 'the jews' want to control the world. Although it was written by the Russians a hundred years ago as 'evidence' the jewish were an evil people. Not just ordinary but poorly educated civilians believed the constructed story, also people like Henry Ford saw it as proof his anti-semitism was justified. Dangerous stuff!
Do you believe the stories of David Icke, although they have been debunked? If I may ask: why?
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