(But I heard you anyway.)
Coincidence? I think not.....
Posted on 04/22/2016 10:01:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Most well-known conspiracies are rooted, even if only distantly, in fact: A blurry video, redacted government memos, a tragic real-life occurrence. But one of our absolute favorite conspiracies is one that is rooted in practically nothing, one that is so delightfully bonkers and out there that the idea of people actually believing in it strains belief. Behold: The lizard people!
The reptilian conspiracy
Lizard people are a common part of multiple folklore traditions and they show up frequently enough in fiction to have become a trope if you’re generous, a cliché if you’re less so. From ancient myths all over the world to various cryptozoological claims to the foundational level of a lot of the more bonkers conspiracies to appearances in books, television, movies and more, lizard people are clearly ingrained in our subconscious as well as the zeitgeist.
But how do you get from a common element in myth and fiction to a major worldwide conspiracy theory? One that claims that all aspects of government, business and religion are guided, if not outright controlled, by secret reptilian overlords masquerading as human beings? It’s a wild leap, and you don’t see anything similar with say, satyrs and fauns. So, how did we get there? The answer is one man: David Icke.
Initially a professional soccer player, Icke later transitioned into a sports broadcaster after arthritis put an early end to his sports career. By the late 1980s, however, Icke had grown increasingly political, becoming heavily involved with the British Green Party while also taking an interest in various New Age philosophies, specifically psychic abilities, culminating in a mystical experience at an ancient pre-Incan burial site.
Resigning from the Green Party, Icke began to position himself as a kind of psychic, predicting various natural disasters and even the end of the world itself in 1997 (none of which have come true). Eventually, however, his wild claims, particularly the one stating that he was the son of the godhead, caught up with him, as he became a figure of public ridicule. Two years after his purported end of the world, however, is when Icke’s story gets really interesting.
That’s because it was 1999 that saw the publication of Icke’s book, The Biggest Secret. It was this book that made the outlandish claim that human beings were created by reptilian aliens known as the Anunnaki. The tome also put forth several other ideas, many of which will seem familiar to anyone who has seen The Matrix movies, but for our purposes, it’s the lizard people claim that is most fascinating.
Icke blew out his theory in such a way as to be not just compatible, but actually helpful for every other conspiracy theory. By claiming that the reptilians were ancient aliens that controlled the planet as part of a New World Order, while hiding behind the world’s most powerful and wealthy families, Icke created a framework that could be used to prop up every conspiracy theory from the JFK assassination to the origins of the atomic bomb to your neighbor’s alleged alien abduction. This malleability has been a massive part of the conspiracy’s resiliency.
Additionally, the lizard people conspiracy also gives conspiracy theorists a way out. As explanations get more and more complex and require more and more mental acrobatics to justify them, eventually, a conspiracy theorist can just shrug and claim that it’s just reptilians all the way down.
Icke also connected his reptoid hypothesis to the aforementioned folklore and myths, as the Anunnaki have their root in the creation story of Babylonian mythology. And the reptilian’s home underground? That plays in nicely to both hollow earth theories as well as indigenous American stories about subterranean lizard people.
But it doesn’t stop there! The lizard people conspiracy is a massive, massive tent, one that welcomes and synthesizes all other conspiracies. Think there’s a secretive Satanic cabal ruling the earth? Well, they’re actually just lizard people practicing black magic. Concerned about the Rothschilds and Rockefellers? Clearly lizard people. Believe in pseudoscience extrapolations of quantum mechanics and string theory? Yup, those other dimensions are where lizard people come from.
Despite all the claims of Icke and his supporters, however, despite the myriad of other conspiracies that the reptoid hypothesis touches upon, builds off of or attempts to confirm, there is absolute no actual evidence to support the existence of reptilian overlords ruling our lives. You might think that this lack of evidence would cause this particular conspiracy theory to die a quick death…but somewhat counterintuitively, it’s this lack of evidence that has allowed the theory to cling to life so effectively.
Without any real evidence, with only “Well, it makes sense if you think about it!” to back it up, those wishing to debunk this particular theory are left with a difficult task. Sure, there’s not any hard evidence to suggest the existence of lizard people, but can you prove that there aren’t any? Bertrand Russell’s teapot analogy addresses this, illustrating that the burden of proof lies with the person making an unfalsifiable claim, not the person trying to disprove it. But, not exactly shockingly, believers in the reptoid hypothesis aren’t entirely up on their mid-20th century British philosophers.
So, with no one able to actually disprove the theory, with no evidence to debunk, with a basis in multiple world religion, folklore and mythic traditions, with a connection to practically any other conspiracy imaginable and with people primed for the theory by countless lizard people across all aspects of pop culture…is it any wonder that Icke’s absolutely, 100% bonkers reptoid hypothesis has proven so durable?
What do you think? Is Icke’s reptoid hypothesis simply a wide-reaching synthesis of every other conspiracy, a clever framework into which to drop whatever an individual wants? Or, despite how bizarre it all seems, is there some truth to alien lizard people pulling the strings of all human endeavors? Tell us down below in the comments!
Prayers up for you, 2DV!
(But I heard you anyway.)
Coincidence? I think not.....
This current president and congress does not give a damn about our veterans: brothers, parents, and children.
I HATE them. HATE them with perfect hatred.
that one on the right... is kinda hot compared to the one on the left... somebody ping laz...
:)
I’m under V.A. care, so don’t use those except the ER in emergencies as the hospital is 60 miles away.
Of course it’s hotter, it’s James Earl Jones!
:)
Fun article, thanks for sharing.
I remember when I was a kid, we were fed a plethora of “tales” that Nazi’s who survived WW2 were hiding in underground bunkers the size of cities, and they had advanced flying machines. These “bunker cities” of Nazis was a rather popular “myth” during the 1960s and was mixed in with the New Age genre. Part of the theme was, these Nazis who survived the war literally went “underground”. Of course by the 1960s, they were 20 years or more older, i.e. if one was 32 in 1945, this person would be 52 in 1965.
Part of this “fable” was, in the 1950s, some of these Nazis tried to establish religious sects that were more aligned with the occult or even a mix of God and Satan both, the “leaders” of the underground Nazis were afraid to be in public or they would face war crimes, but others were less known and mixed with some of the “bohemian” types to form cultic type religion to get followers where, once established, the Nazi “leaders” in hiding would come out from underground and literally take over using these followers as storm troopers.
Part of these fables of the 1950s and 60s was, these Nazis had advanced flying machines which they kept as sort of an airforce, and that some of these Nazis were key figures from the shadows of history who played some role in key events decades after the war. But some of these “leaders” were also very sick, some disease or bacteria that was found in the “underground bunkers” that started to kill them off in the 1960s.
One of the things I recall as part of this urban myth was, these Nazis also were in contact with some reptilian type beings. Perhaps from the same genre this OP discusses.
They were supposidly wanting to get assistance from the Reptilians to get some of Hitler’s remains from the Russians or Germans to try and “clone” Hitler back to life.
This was some of the “entertaining” fables going around in the 1960s.
[ I don’t know if this has anything to do with the full moon right now...however...Medved had conspiracy day today. Every time he has this show, I think of a caller from probably more than 5 years ago who called in with his conspiracy, and it was SPECIFICALLY about the Lizard People. George H. Bush was one, and a lot of others high up in gov. He was actually scared to be calling. Has always stuck with me, for some reason. ]
Since reptiles have lower body temps they can be breeding grounds for all sorts of nasty bacteria.... I would be scared too.
Clearly the author is either a reptilian or one of their mind controlled slaves. But 2DV? That one caught me off-guard.
It’s having to arrange transportation, which is a limited resource on days the podiatrist is there, which is usually only two days a week or so. I don’t drive anymore and my wife can’t see out of one eye.
Didn’t he move to the Philippines?
Oh, like those stories weren’t true. Infidel.
Carville!
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some of the pyramids in bosnia....are poured cement ....
some of the metal tubes in a mountain in china....are 3 million yrs old..
the sanskrit text describe a weapon that “burned like 10k suns and caused the hair and fingernails of survivors to fall out”...covered the earth in dust...killed all the birds...
flying machines that are controled “at the speed of thought.
chineese leaders buried in aluminum armor?
it goes on and on....im convinced we have visited this level of tech before...
cern....thats the big question....at this time imo.
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