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May 6, 2024 - David Icke
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Eliminating Uncertainty Is Eliminating Freedom - David Icke
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VAR, Dad.
Video Assistant Referee.
For years, football didn't have really too much technological involvement.
Rugby had it and it worked well.
Cricket had it and it worked well.
A lot of American sports had it and it worked well.
The biggest sport in the world, and the biggest league in the world, in England, have brought it in, and it's been a mess from day one.
And it's really, it's hit a personal note this weekend, hasn't it?
Well, do you remember recently on the Dot Connector we've been talking about the need for certainty?
Yeah.
And how the left side of the brain, which is basically human society, human society is the way the left side of the brain processes information.
It's very clear when you study it.
And the left side of the brain demands certainty.
And again, coming off from what we were talking about with religion, a lot of religious belief is a quest for certainty.
You know, instead of taking everything and putting everything under question, Which gives you uncertainty.
What's the truth really?
I'm looking for it.
You want a certainty.
So your religious belief is your certainty.
Yeah.
If I believe in Jesus, I'll go to heaven or whatever your religion is.
And what this technology involved in sport is about is not only the seeking of certainty, but the elimination of uncertainty.
And if you, we'll talk about the football aspect in a second, but if you take that and you play it across human society, we have a snowflake generation, not every young person by any means, there's some fantastic people among the young, but I'm talking about this great swathe of woke and the snowflake mentality.
It's about removing all uncertainty.
And when you see how it plays out, to remove uncertainty overwhelmingly means take freedom away.
So now you've got, in this country, so-called health and safety.
people with their clipboards, oh you can't do that, it's not safe, and it's all these
things that were part of life when I was growing up.
Now you can't do, and in school, oh no we can't do that, we've got to have a risk assessment,
and pages and pages of risk assessment.
This is all trying to eliminate uncertainty from society.
And you eliminate uncertainty, you can't, it's a fool's errand.
But in the pursuit of it, you're eliminating freedom after freedom after freedom.
And that was the point I made when Manchester United... Of all people.
Yeah, Manchester United, who escorted you from the premises after...
A group that we're going to come to shortly was trying to stop an event I was doing at Manchester United, a book launch.
They forgot I played a few matches for them when I was 16.
Yeah, I know, yeah.
So Manchester United is not right up there for me because the same people running it now were the same people running it when they were working with you for months on this event.
A book launch and dinner.
And on the day, thanks to people we're going to come to shortly, they cancelled it.
On the day.
Right?
And so, I look back at Manchester United with Bobby Charlton and George Best and Dennis Law.
I used to love Manchester United then.
I've not got great memories of Manchester United after how they treated us.
Interestingly, since that day, their whole trajectory as a club and as a team has just been a constant decline.
Yeah, they've not done fantastic, that's for sure.
But what we had with this situation with the VAR and the need for certainty, They were playing an FA Cup semi-final against Coventry City, who I used to play for back in the 60s.
And people say, oh, it's just because you used to play for Coventry.
No, it's not.
It's nothing to do with that.
It's about what we're talking about.
And what happened was that Manchester United went 3-0 up.
Game's over.
Kaput.
Because Manchester United are in the Premier League and Coventry City are in a league below.
And, um, so what happened is Coventry City pulled it back to 3-3.
Right at the end.
And it went to extra time.
And, um, right at the end of extra time, this happened.
Got it.
Had that chance in extra time.
Into O'Hare.
It might be they who win it.
It's on to right.
He's got Sims at the far post.
Coventry on the attack.
It's in!
It's one of the most remarkable comebacks in FA Cup history.
Coventry on the attack, it's in!
it's one of the most remarkable comebacks in FA Cup history, Coventry city of the championship
are just about to knock out the mighty Manchester United in stoppage time at the end of extra time
well is there a possible offside in the build-up to the goal?
Well, Manchester United, a few of the fans left when that goal went in.
They might wish they'd come back in now because that goal has been torpedoed!
Can you believe this game?
No, I was away and at this point was jumping around the room.
I completely lost myself when that goal went in and then completely deflated 30 seconds later as thousands of Coventry fans were.
Yeah, so what used to happen before they brought in this VAR technology in pursuit of certainty is the referee and the linesman would decide if something was offside or not.
They would decide if it was a goal or not.
So what you had was a game played by humans and decisions made about it by humans.
And you kind of still have that because humans are interpreting this via technology, often badly.
But this technological pursuit of certainty is coming in, it's going to come in
more and more and more.
And so this Coventry player was deemed offside and the goal
wiped off, it then went to penalties and Manchester United won.
Basically half his big toe was offside
even if you believe that that's actually what happened.
Yeah, there's angles that suggest otherwise.
So the question then is, what advantage did he glean Because his big toe was just ahead of the big toe of a Manchester United defender.
None!
None whatsoever.
And there were still things to happen before the goal went in anyway.
And the offside rule always used to benefit the striker, didn't it?
But not anymore, because of the need for certainty.
So, oh yeah, well hold on a minute.
Can you blow it up, blow it up, blow it up?
Oh, the toenail's longer than he is.
What are we doing?
Yeah, it's insanity.
But this is the obsession with certainty.
And you cannot eliminate uncertainty.
Because even with the situation with the Coventry goal, there's still people saying, I don't think it was offside.
See, it's still about the uncertainty.
Why not just leave it to humans to make these decisions on the pitch, as we did before?
And will they make mistakes?
Well, of course they will, but there have been mistakes with this VAR as well.
But the VAR technology is not just a football story.
This is about society in general.
This obsession with eliminating uncertainty and seeking certainty, which is an impossible dream.
But the pursuit of it is destroying many things, it's certainly destroying football.
Completely.
Because what you have, you've had ever since football began, is someone scores a goal, the crowd kind of, you know, go crazy if they're supporting that team, and that's it, you kick off and you get on with it.
What happens now in game after game after game after game?
is they score a goal, the crowd go, yeah, and then they go, oh, wait a minute, what about VAR?
And then you've got people not even at the ground at some location looking at the technology.
The ground goes quiet, they're all waiting around, sometimes for minutes.
Yeah, they are, yeah.
Until the people decree what VAR has decided or what VAR has shown.
And it's killed the game in so many ways.
And what you had on last weekend, With Manchester United and Coventry, you had this long competition, the FA Cup, going way, way, way, way back.
You had a result and an occasion that would have been in the memory for anyone that followed football forever.
Yeah, it would have been.
Where the big Manchester United, 3-0 up, were pulled back to 3-0 all by a smaller club, And then the smaller club won in the last few minutes of extra time.
What an amazing historic moment in football terms, in FA Cup terms.
All killed because someone's big toe or half of it was in front of someone else's big toe and they had to make a decision on that basis.
It's insane but it is a A real statement about where we're going with artificial intelligence.
It certainly is.
And also, everyone loves an underdog story, the David V. Goliath stories.
If you look at the Manchester United squad, pick any one of their 11 players that started the pitch
they would be worth more in a transfer market than the entire Coventry squad
let alone one individual player.
And that kind of real small guy beating the big guy story which everybody loves
and if you look through history, whether it's sport, whatever it is
those stories are the ones that people still talk about when people won things that shouldn't have really won
things.
And this is just going to stop things like that happening.
And I mean, for me, without sounding too much conspiracy theorist...
This has been done on purpose.
What's going to generate more money for the TV companies?
Coventry against Man City or Man United against Man City?
It's going to generate a lot more interest globally.
It would not shock me if this was a completely deliberate thing.
Yeah, well, maybe.
I don't see a conspiracy everywhere.
You've got to look at the mentality of the people that are deciding if something's offside or not through the VAR technology.
You know, first of all, they're under a lot of pressure.
Yeah.
Because if they make the wrong decision, and they've made the wrong decision blatantly a few times, then they get absolutely castigated.
Yeah, they do.
And, you know, you've got the pressure of, you know, what if we get it wrong and Manchester United go out of the cup?
What was the repercussions?
All this is going on, subconsciously if not consciously.
But if you are a rational person that has some kind of perspective, the whole idea that you would rule out a goal of historic proportions, actually, because of someone's half a big toe, When he was gaining no advantage whatsoever.
Surely, if you're going to have a situation of fairness and justice, it's did what he did give him an advantage that led to a goal?
Which was unfair for the other team?
Well, the answer in this case is no.
There was no advantage gleaned.
And it should have stood on the basis of justice alone.
But the pursuit of certainty made sure it wasn't.
Yeah, and like you've always said, the people in charge of football were people in suits that have never actually played the game and can't relate.
And I think, with VAR in general, I remember when the first bit of technology came in, which was the goal-line technology, which I don't think anybody had an issue with, if that makes sense.
But with this, and you compare it to the other sports where it's been used a lot, football is a much faster-paced game that just, you know, it flows.
Cricket's a stop-start game.
Rugby's a stop-start game.
A lot of the American sports are stop-start games, so it doesn't impact the game as much.
This destroys it.
And that's not an accident, I don't think.
Yeah, but also, you know, when I played football, you know, I played seasons and seasons of football, and you see it in football or before VAR anyway, you'd have a bad decision.
Yeah.
But over a season, you'd have one or two decisions that weren't right that were your benefit.
It kind of evened itself out, basically.
And again, I come back to this this thing, you know, life is uncertain and it's one of its Wonderful things.
You know, if everything was predictable and everything happened as everyone thought it was going to happen, people would start to die of boredom.
So you've got unpredictability and you have to accept the good with the bad.
But again, if you pursue The elimination of uncertainty, you're going to eliminate freedom, and that's what's been happening.
Yeah, absolutely and completely on purpose, almost certainly.
There's a lot of things that I've said over the years which were perceived to be crazy
and then suddenly...
They start to move mainstream.
I'm waiting for someone to convince me that we don't live in a simulation.
What is real?
How do you define real?
If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
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