Don't Take The Red Pill

[poliphilo]

I spent much of yesterday researching 911 conspiracy theory.

I don't like what it's done to my head. 

Are the secret chiefs who run our world really so sneaky, smart and super-efficient? 

What about the fuck-up theory of history?

Conspiracyland is such an unhealthy place to live. Ooh, the paranoia!

Frankly, I'd rather forget all about it.

But maybe that's what the secret chiefs are counting on...

Comments

[algabal.livejournal.com]

One of the things most disturbing about conspiracy theory is how it manages to attract the most extreme ends of both the left and the right, both left-wing extremists and neo-Nazis. It's not just unhealthy, it's almost always wrong. I highly recommend you read this (http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html), lest you get caught up in that ugly maelstrom.

This radio broadcast (http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1201) is also worth listening to, where a survivor of the London Subway Bombings desperately tries to convince a bunch of conspiracy theorists that her story is true, who then proceed to dismiss her as a liar and a government shill.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The problem is that I don't know enough- few of us do- to assess the value of expert testimony on either side. One guy with letters after his name says burning aviation fuel couldn't have brought the towers down, another says it could. Which do I believe?

You're right about the extremists. I just read what intially seemed like a commonsensical piece about The New World Order and by the time I got to the end it was clear it was coming from some place on the far far right

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the popular mechanics link, I'd been looking for it.

[sculptruth.livejournal.com]

That radio broadcast was wonderful--and made me feel immense relief as one with personal experience surrounding 9/11 (as well as many conspiracy theorists). I recommend it to anyone who verges on the edge of becoming a conspiracy theorist, ha!

My personal opinion is there very well may be a conspiracy, but it isn't anywhere near the one people are focussed on. How convenient to the conspirators that might be, don't you think?