Well, my verdict anyway. There's no denying it's an interesting book Bronte, I would say twenty percent fascinating and eighty percent erm.. we'll get to that.
First the interesting parts. He has unearthed some revealing recent history, all the stuff about the UK and US governments is probably all true and shows up some pretty disgraceful behaviour. But not much I didn't already know as I like to keep up on that sort of thing. British agents executing Irish civilians, corruption, cronyism, all of it depressingly true. The parts about Jewish history, Israel and zionism are fascinating but would withstand a bit of checking I should think. I can see why the ADL don't like him but if it's true we should be allowed to discuss it. The subliminal messages in advertising is a bit I enjoyed, I've always avoided ads like the plague, I used to be a media analyst and know just how much of what we read or watch is there simply because someone wants you to see it. The problem I have with this evidence is the conclusions he draws from it. History is just one damn awful thing after another. When I look into the past I see the same things Ickey does, an endless succession of wars, genocide, misery etc. The thing I don't see is that it all has to be part of some huge conspiracy. I think all conspiracy theories start in the same way, some people just can't accept the ugly truth of a situation eg; JFK can't have been shot by a loner with a mail order rifle, Lady Di can't have died in mere car crash, 9/11 can't have been planned by a few guys in desert somewhere. The list is endless, all of them turn out to be wrong, most recently the 9/11 theories have signally failed to stand up to scrutiny. No intercept planes were launched because they didn't know what was going on until it was all over. Bin Ladens family were flown out of the states sure, but they didn't know where Osama was, he had been exiled from Saudi for years. And missiles projecting holographic planes round themselves? Jesus! All human societies past and present reflect human nature. Part amazing and part dreadful. Ickey doesn't seem keen to accept that and has to join everything together into a massive history wide/planet wide plot to control and destroy. The human race doesn't need any help starting wars, it's what we do. But he doesn't stop there of course, it is all controlled by giant shape shifting reptiles. Talk about pushing the blame away. His (I hate to call it evidence) ideas for this are bizarre to say the least. Humans never inter-bred with aliens it simply couldn't happen. We can't inter-breed with chimps our closest relatives let alone crocodiles. Let alone alien crocodiles! It's just so awful to read I feel sorry for him. But then he would say I'm being narrow minded or brainwashed. I wouldn't mind but it makes no sense at all. He selectively picks from prehistoric writing and translates literally when they were all just creation myths. "We are so amazing we must be from the gods" is a common enough theme that says more about people than it says about reality. Perhaps there is another fear where all his ideas come from, a refusal to accept the "boring" fact of evolution by natural selection. Finally we get <sigh> to atlantis. The fact he's included Plato's allegorical island finally destroys what little credibilty he had as a researcher. There is no mention of atlantis anywhere in ancient writing other than in Plato, and the story was set at a time when no advanced civilisation existed, he made it up. To use this and lemuria as the starting point for the reptile invasion of earth says it all, it never happened either. But of course we don't really exist we are part of the matrix, an illusion. I could go on about it but you don't need to think too much about this... "LSD only works because we believe it will" erm.. so if I was to spike someones drink with acid it would have no effect? Or this, "I could turn into a double decker bus if I wanted too"? This, "Cats jump about seemingly after nothing because they percieve a wider reality"? And this, "We only put on weight when eating junk food because we believe we will"? He also has the usual complete non-understanding of quantum physics that seems to infest the "new age". Apart from the aforementioned good bits you could go through every page like this and pick out the howlers. The guy seriously needs an editor, maybe I should volunteer. I often bump into David at waterloo station as he lives just down the coast from me. And that is the main reason I think his ideas to be rubbish. If he was on their case surely the reptiles would have had him bumped off by now? So there you have it, I looked behind the curtain. Shame there was nothing there, but you've got to try;-) Are you going to have a read of Dawkins "the Blind Watchmaker"? Go on it's great, will change your life for sure.
