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I saw this interview with David Icke, the lizard-people guy. He was like, “did you know that there are families that control a lot of land and hold a lot of pow

• retrogradeorbit 8y ago
  What your statement misses is that the problem is confounded by most people simply not believing it. They will believe that "people do fucked up shit to get more resources", while simultaneously believing that government is good, central banking in necessary, the money system is sound, the commercial banks are solvent, voting works, the justice system is blind, the wars are necessary and so on and so on. And people who point out the truth of this corruption are derided, ridiculed, called a conspiracy theorist, compared to David Icke and so on. I would concede you your point if people en masse really did think that Icke's statement was common knowledge, but it is clearly not. The myths that keep the common person conforming to the powers that shouldn't be run deep in the psyche.