Alex Jones can be a bit of an asshat at times and he definitely makes a handsome living peddling doom-porn… however, info-wars.com is actually a compendium of government crimes and misdeeds that exceeds LRC in its scope and scale, if not in its sophistication and discernment.
David Icke is an interesting fellow. Either he’s MI5 or (my favored hypothesis) he’s a genuinely misled fellow who may be being subtly manipulated through “higher powers”. A lot of his stuff is basically twice-baked theosophy. And while his lizard thing is batshit crazy, he’s not crazy for thinking about it. However, I believe that he may be aware that he is manipulated to an extent and does a little manipulating of his own… I detect woven into his crazier stuff a kind of anarchist or minarchist narrative that is opposed to the modern religion of democracy and the false egalitarianism and monoculture emanating out of the Establishment.
While neither Alex Jones nor David Icke are harmful… neither are they good examples of critical thinking. If you want to get educated on the crimes of the State and its overall short-term agenda (CFR bullshit), Alex Jones is a great resource, though use LRC to keep an even keel. If you want to get educated on the spiritual affect of the Establishment… which really operates at a much higher level of manipulation than what Alex Jones talks about, then David Icke can give you the general gist of it, though he’s awful short on substance at times.
If you want to learn critical thinking then there’s no better place to start than Mises (Ultimate Foundations of Economic Science). Peruse this thread for more specific recommendations on a related note.
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