Where Conspiracy Theorists Steal Their Ideas From | Truth Hurts

here's an unfortunate red pill for the conspiracy community whole sections of your worldview have been ripped off from random bits of pop culture trash hollywood blockbusters daytime tv pulp novels and kids comic books reptilian entities are behind this manipulation of human society where conspiracy theories and pop culture meet let's start right at the top with conspiracy superstar david ike ike was briefly a professional footballer then in 1991 he appeared on a british talk show wearing a turquoise tracksuit and declared he was the son of god you claim to be the son of god is that

true yes you see the thing is that it's quite it's quite funny really he's now spent 30 years developing various theories all underpinned by the essential belief that a race of shape-shifting pan-dimensional lizardmen have been secretly controlling the destiny of the human race he saw millions of books can fill concert halls with thousands of paying fans on speaking tours in a recent interview in which he declared corona barris was a hoax had over 8 million views by the time youtube removed it but there's a problem here i mean there's many problems here but a major

one is that his whole fundamental theory is pretty much stolen straight from the plot of a 1980s tv show the show v ran in the us and the uk in the 80s it's pretty good basically aliens arrive on earth they look just like us initially they offer technological improvements gaining the trust of the humans but the heroes then discovered that they're actually giant lizards disguising themselves in humanoid costumes planning to enslave our planet replace our leaders and harvest us for food which basically is the gist of david ike's entire philosophy people can deny their existence

if they like i do not give a they exist so when art goes on about reptile conspiracies is he receiving divine revelations to save the human species as he claims or at least the half-remembered drugs of a tv show he saw shortly before he announced himself the son of god it's impossible to say for sure but we do know ike is a v fan he said before that he thinks that the show got a lot of things right after the jfk assassination the apollo moon landing became the second great hit of the 1960s conspiracy theory

you can see why as one small step for man [Music] imagine a world before walking on the moon such a thing would have seemed unreal magical unbelievable perhaps even faked as a bit of cold war propaganda neil armstrong did not land on the moon a government lie landed on the moon this is the stupidest thing i've ever heard man it's like so stupid the very year buzz neal landed on the moon 1969 the idea of fakery was already being played out by hollywood in the filming of a fake moon landing clumsily featured in the worst

sean connery bond film diamonds are forever then in 1979 capricorn 1 a hit thriller about a fake mars mission came out there's only one small catch it never happened the filmmakers were then sued for plagiarism by a prominent moon landing truther named bill casing going to the moon was a real risky thing the ensuing controversy elevated all sorts of moon landing nonsense into the conspiracy theory mainstream the footage that we have shows them faking being halfway to the moon that proves they couldn't go halfway because they're faking being halfway impressively despite a supposedly vast government

cover-up the conspiracy fantasists apparently even figured out which director had shot the fake footage stanley kubrick's psychedelic epic 2001 a space odyssey had come out the year before the moon landing so obviously must have been him nasa hired stanley to fake the moon landing because they couldn't do it themselves and then they threatened to kill his family so he shut the up and put out subliminal messaging and the shining to let you all know it was him that did that they were they were fake we did them in roswell smoke mirrors [Music] now they were

pretty real as far as i know i mean i only know apollo 8. [Music] and what about the illuminati hip-hop's favorite conspiracy theory about a new world order who secretly run the world i'm afraid this is stolen from 20th century pop culture as well the original illuminati were a small group founded in bavaria in 1776. ironically their mission was specifically to promote enlightenment and combat superstition they never had more than a few hundred members and were basically done by the early 1800s well i'm not real you know saying once you hit your peak at a

certain level the crazy part about it is what was little dirk and he did a video people not paying attention hold on grandma i'mma get you something to eat right now okay but they did have kind of a cool name or so thought lord omar kyam ravenhurst who to be fair knew a thing or two about cool names he was a hippie satirist born kerry thornley who in the 1960s teamed up with playboy writer robert anton wilson to troll the world these two thought it would be a super funny prank to start writing letters to

media outlets across america blaming every problem tragedy and failure on the secret behavior of this shadowy group called the illuminati they called this operation mindfuck and the inside joke became pretty influential spinning into a series of novels called illuminatus trilogy inspiring satires from umberto echo and alan moore and some music by the klf unfortunately operation mindfuck's prank also inspired a generation of very online people to believe that the illuminati actually run the world now every time you see a youtube comment claiming katy perry is part of the illuminati this is basically where it comes from

let's get back to stanley kubrick when he died while finishing the edit for his scary sex movie eyes wide shut the conspiracy world lost its collective mind by 1999 when eyes wide shut came out the idea of the illuminati created by satirists and taken seriously by da vinci code fans had taken hold but it now become mixed online with anti-semitic tropes of the protocols of the elders of zion to create a new mixture of old hatreds and lies in this world the illuminati were the jews and specifically the squillionaire rosschild family the new conspiracy ran

the eyes wide shut was kubrick revealing the secret sex and murder games of the new world order elite led by the rothschilds and obviously since kubrick died shortly before the film actually came out he must have been whacked by the perverted illuminati bastards he was trying to expose to the medium of a tom cruise movie he filmed a ritual with tom cruise in it in which i only know more recently was a rothschild mansion [Music] part of the reason for this impressive leap is that the film features a masked ball people connected this to a

party held in 1972 guide a ross child called the surrealist ball salvador dali designed special mass worn by a-listed guests who have served food on fur plates by butlers dressed as cats basically it was the most amazing session history and i would have loved to be there to really understand the model which modern conspiracy theories largely follow we actually have to look at another bit of 90s pop culture in the x-files fox mulder and dana scully are two fbi agents assigned to investigate unsolved cases involving paranormal activity week after week episode after episode mulder and

scully find themselves going deeper and deeper into guess what a massive government conspiracy which guess what involves an alien race infiltrating positions of power on earth using guess what a virus to infect and control their human host the story has to escalate it can never resolve because no resolution could ever be satisfactory for the scale of the questions being asked the x-files became the third longest-running sci-fi show in american tv history its slogans the truth is out there and trust no one coming to define the paranoid fantasy style of the online conspiracy hunter the truth

is out there it probably just doesn't involve anti-semitic space lizard fantasies fake moon landings or billionaire sex courts it's likely based on something a lot more boring like interest rates or filibusters or [Music] something you