I tend not to take history books as fact, lots of inaccuracies and differs of opinion, some cases conflicting one so either sounds like contradicting each other, so I take some books that are stated as "fact" with a pinch of salt

Nice excuse not to read any books

I read mein kampf

I've read loads of books. After a while, it becomes obvious there is a pattern underlying all the wars that seem to stop and start independently of each other. The causes of WW1, for example, can be traced back several decades. It can be argued that WW2 was an inevitable consequence of WW1 and the economic woes of the 1920s and 1930s. After finishing off the Nazis in 1945, the next couple of wars were all about the Commies. US foreign policy since the 1950s has not helped one bit.

So, yeah, I would say all wars are linked in some way or another, even if the history books - written by the victors, remember - suggest otherwise.

Read 1984, that posited an ongoing war between 3 superstates none of which were able individually to defeat the other 2. Alliances changed constantly, but the reason there was a war at all was to consume raw materials. Anthony Burgess argues that this isn't that far from the truth post WW2 in his book 1985.

The question is intent.

Do we really believe that somewhere there are a group of people so organised that they have run the World for the last 100 years or so and not been found out and yet this is the best they can come up with?

I find this, like most theories, fascinating but not one I can buy in to.

As far as the poster is concerned, they bug the heck out of me, but the ones that really get up my nose are those that can't even be bothered to get the font right.

If you have to rip off a tired old idea that was fresh fo 2 weeks about two years ago at least put some effort in and get it right.

The font most often used is Gill Sans - which was designed in the 1920s, but it seems to me that the original poster is more likely to have been hand lettered, or printed using letter press lettering. This is how it was done back then - poster designers could render lettering to a very high degree of accuracy.

From Wikipedia - a scan of the original poster:


In fact, if you look at features such as the upper case R they are close, but not spot on. Also see how the letter C differs. Here is the word “carry” set in Gill Sans:


And in case you thought that another popular and well known font would substitute well, here is the same word set in Johnston (the font used for the London Underground)


So, yes, even Gill Sans is wrong, yet it’s become the defacto font for these kinds of posters.