Lizards in Disguise: the Egg-Laying Truth about Our Planet's Rulers

 

Among the fringiest, most fanatical of United States conspiracy theorists, there exists a pocket of folks devoted to the idea that the most influential members of our society: politicians, celebrities, and corporate executives, are in fact, sinister reptilian humanoids. The theory was first posited by defamed BBC sports writer David Icke in his supposedly tell-all book The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World, in which he claimed the ruling elite was a shapeshifting reptilian brood all stemming from the same thousand-year bloodline. The machinations of this reptilian cabal, while only vaguely specified and highly debated among theorists, are assuredly sinister and diabolical in nature. The theory has gained cultural traction since, both earnest and ironic. 

In The Power Elite, Mills details the consequences of conceiving the ruling elite as omnipotent. “According to such notions of the omnipotent elite as historical cause, the elite is never an entirely visible agency. It is, in fact, a secular substitute for the will of God, being realized in a sort of providential design, except that usually non-elite men are thought capable of opposing it and eventually overcoming it.” (Mills, 16) While the reptilian-rulers conspiracy is laughable to most, it’s born from this same dangerous notion of epitomizing the ruling class as inhuman. Like most conspiracy theories, its formulation serves to explain the often evil or incompetent actions of our ruling elite. It’s spun in an effort to dispel the truth that our acting leaders and chosen celebrities are inevitably human, capable of being flawed, volatile, and just as sinister as any imagined lizard-person. 

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Mills, C. Wright. 2002. The Power Elite. London, UK: Oxford. 

Time Magazine, 2019. “Separating Fact from Fiction: The Reptillian Elite.” Retrieved April 21, 

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