Children of the Matrix

Children of the Matrix: How an Interdimentional Race Has Controlled the Planet for Thousands of Years - and Still Does
by David Icke
Bridge of Love Publications, £15, ISBN 0953881016

The Holy Grail for conspiracy theorists, as for theoretical physicists, is the construction of a TOE – a Theory of Everything – and David Icke is getting ever closer to the goal. This, his latest book (subtitle: How an interdimensional race has controlled the world for thousands of years – and still does), covers innumerable previous conspiracy stories – some familiar (Atlantis, the Templars, water fluoridation, the “murder” of Princess Diana) and some less so (Jayne Mansfield a High Priestess of Satan, Hitler a Rothschild) and shows how all of these are the work of the aliens and human-alien hybrids who walk among us and control every aspect of our lives.
Now, a TOE which invokes virtually undetectable entities with virtually unlimited paranormal powers might be regarded as a bit of a cheat in some quarters – but it certainly allows everything from the Holy Roman Empire to the labels on oil cans to be part of a single story. This is a considerable advance on even the most comprehensive previous efforts. Therefore, when I say that this book is complete baloney, I mean that as a compliment. By comparison, similar books are very incomplete baloney, indeed.
Having said that, I found the book very hard going. Reading it from start to finish makes its overall lack of structure (apart from a broad “ancient to modern” chronology) apparent and dipping into it makes your head hurt. The gory accounts of ritual child-murders (“thousands, world-wide on main sacrifice days”), the endless “eye-witness” stories of George Bush, Edward Heath, the Queen Mother (choose a celebrity) “shapeshifting” into reptilian form have a curiously deadening effect which is the opposite of the “wake-up call” which Icke presumably intends. Unsurprisingly, most of the references are to wacko web-sites and publications but – if the “mainstream” media are under reptilian control…