Interesting to have finished this book just as we enter another lockdown.
Its author, David Icke, has endured hit pieces & misrepresentation on a scale even Jordan Peterson could only imagine. Personally I’ve been aware of him for years & really liked his conversation with Karl Pilkington (available on YouTube), but never gave him that much thought. He accurately called out paedophilia among the elites decades ago, but like many, I found some of his other apparent claims hard to swallow. Unlike many, I also believe in going to the source before forming opinions so decided to take the plunge & read this latest book.
The Answer is staggering in its depth & breadth, yet it’s consistently written in Icke’s colloquial, unpretentious style, peppered with biting sarcasm. This makes some very dense information much more readable, as Icke exposes the truth (as he sees it) on topics from climate change to AI to ‘wokeness’ to the nature of reality itself.
The core premise is that a conspiracy is underway to impose a centralised world order (the outsourcing of everything to the CCP & destruction of small businesses through lockdowns are, he argues, 2 of the chess moves towards this) as well as to transform us from conscious, intuitive beings into sheeple – through social programming, technology addiction, even disruption of our well-being through electromagnetic radiation. Some of what Icke touches on I already know to be true (e.g. my years in the urban planning industry confirm his take on ‘smart cities’ creating inescapable surveillance & blurring the real/virtual), while other things I looked up also turned out to be 100% legit (albeit minimised or brushed off by mainstream sources), such as studies showing 5G to be harmful.
Do I agree with everything Icke lays out? Wrong question. We need to stop deciding what we ‘agree’ or ‘don’t agree with’ & look beyond the ignorance that we don’t even realise afflicts us. I read this book with an open mind, prepared to encounter inconvenient truths & even have my own pre-existing positions challenged. If nothing of what you consume is doing that, you’re doing it wrong. Read The Answer for yourself & make up your own mind.