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"I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it"

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Icke’s line is built like a trapdoor: it starts with a quasi-clinical diagnosis (“collective schizophrenia”) and drops you into a moral thriller where everyone is both captive and cop. The choice of a psychiatric term isn’t incidental; it borrows the authority of medicine to make social life sound not merely misguided but pathologically broken. That escalation is the point. If the culture is sick, then disagreement isn’t just disagreement - it’s evidence of infection.

The sharpest move is the double role he assigns the public. “Slaves” frames people as coerced by an outside power; “police force” flips it, making everyday conformity feel like collaboration. That pairing is emotionally addictive because it resolves a modern anxiety: why does control persist even when no one seems to be holding the whip? Icke answers with a neat, unnerving story about internalized enforcement - the way peers punish deviance, the way we self-censor, the way social approval becomes a leash.

Subtextually, it’s also a permission slip. If you accept the premise, then resisting the “imposed thought behavior” becomes an act of liberation, and being ridiculed becomes proof you’re over the target. The rhetoric is designed to turn social pushback into validation.

Context matters: Icke’s public identity isn’t the academic diagnosing society from a lab; it’s the ex-athlete-turned-provocateur positioning himself against institutions and consensus narratives. That outsider stance gives the line its charge. It’s less a clinical observation than a recruiting slogan for people who feel managed, watched, and quietly drafted into enforcing rules they never agreed to.

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Icke, David. (2026, January 15). I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-believe-that-the-human-race-has-developed-a-56956/

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Icke, David. "I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-believe-that-the-human-race-has-developed-a-56956/.

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"I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-believe-that-the-human-race-has-developed-a-56956/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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David Icke (born April 29, 1952) is a Athlete from England.

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