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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Universe" data-source="post: 2296907" data-attributes="member: 8944">This is, of course, precisely how such theories as Icke's continue to prosper in the information age.  Since no person's motives or statements can be taken at face value, they are assigned a secret meaning (and accordingly lesser or greater value) by the reader (or viewer, or whatever), and then rearranged and conflated into patterns that reveal Larger Meaning.  It's a Rorschach test writ large - the human mind seeks patterns that it finds desirable or at least acceptable.  We dismiss the presence of reptilian humanoids living among us (though that's certainly not universal) and sieze upon the idea of a secret bloodline running through the centuries, dominating the halls of power all over the world.  Once you start down this path, there's really no reason to stop - if the "official" history of the world is a lie perpetrated by Them (the greedy, but not necessarily literally reptillian, social elite), then every "official" statement can be interpreted as evidence of "They're" control. Do people do exactly the above all the time? Absolutely.  Read a book by Jim Marrs for some of the best written examples of kookie secret history and conspiracy theory.  Dan Brown has made a populist phenomenon of a slightly more mundane version (no ultraterrestrial reptoids, but hey - give him time) with books like Angels and Demons and the Da Vinci Code, assigning bizarre motives to any number of historical figures (only some of which, to his credit, directly contradict the established historical record).  Even something like the above that's explicitly fiction is taken as the gospel (ha! You'll see the irony if you've read the Brown's books) truth by many readers.  Now, I glean more than my fair share of entertainment from books like Marrs', Icke's, and even Brown's...but I don't sweat the "truths" that any of them reveal.  We like to know secrets, and we like to see patterns. If you accept those truisms, nearly every conspiracy and secret history you've ever heard of can be dismissed as a flight of fancy.  And Oswald did kill Kennedy all by himself. Or maybe it was reptoids?</blockquote>

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