LOSING THE MEANING OF SANITY …

… CRAZY IS THE NEW NORMAL

The David Icke Newsletter Goes Out On Sunday

I had a personal experience of this over the last few days when the Japanese video game giant, Sega, blocked the use of an anti-war song at the Wembley Arena that was planned to be part of a call for people to stop killing each other.

This ban was not about money because the financial deal had been agreed and the final paperwork was about to be exchanged. It was apparently stopped by the ‘brand manager’ of a video game series called, wait for it … Total War. The reason for this decision was nothing more than personal bias because Sega told us that they did not want ‘their’ music associated with a ‘controversial figure’ like me.

When it comes to crazy, inexplicable and bizarre, the very fact that the original writers of a great anti-war song could sell the rights to a multinational corporation for use in a video series called Total War takes some serious beating. But maybe that can be eclipsed by the about-faced bizarreness of the rights holder using this anti-war song in a video game in which war is sold as entertainment while banning the use of the same song to call for peace and reconciliation at an event at which thousands are attending.

And if you want to walk the extremes of bizarreness and Orwellian double-think imagine if the person banning the use of the song in its true context considers the requester ‘controversial’ while presumably considering himself non-controversial, sane and credible for producing and promoting video games in which simulated mass-murder is presented as a bit of fun and a way to enjoy your leisure time.

But then war itself has become a video game with mindless and moronic uniforms and ‘yessirs’ killing thousands of people in the Middle and Near East in remotely-controlled drone strikes while sitting at their consoles, joysticks in hand, on the other side of the world – just like the kid in his bedroom playing Total War.

'Hey, kid, you play Total War?

‘Sure do.’

‘You good at it?’

‘Yes sir, got to level one.’

‘You wanna job?

‘Great, there’s some people – fire.’

‘There she goes, baby.’

There you go, babies.

‘No, not that one – this one.’

‘Oops, sorry. We’ll say they were insurgents.’

I hadn't focussed much on video games before this week but what happened prompted me to have a closer look. My goodness.

Here you go - a 30,800 men battle in Total War! Wow. Lots of simulated dead people at nine minutes in. What fun.

And this stuff does not affect the minds and perceptions of the young and others playing it hour after hour with regard to their attitudes to war and violence?

The world is mad: it's official. And Total.

And here is another video game, this time played by US troops with real weapons in Iraq - using the same language that you would hear from any kid in his bedroom playing Total War:

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