Thursday, August 23, 2007

Conspiracy Nuts

Shannon and I watched the History Channel's documentary The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction, which airs twice more this weekend. We were amazed at what kind of nuts are out there.

Conspiracy nuts are convinced that they know all the secrets. They're not skeptics, they're not searching for answers, they've already decided what the answers must be and now they're looking for any supporting evidence. That's incredibly self-indulgent. A conspiracy theorist is emotionally invested in an image of themselves as the hero who will reveal the secret knowledge to the masses. It's kind of twisted.

Anyway, I highly recommend the documentary, as well as the definitive book on the subject, Debunking 9/11 Myths, written by the editors of Popular Mechanics. There are also some decent websites and blogs that debunk the conspiracies like ScrewLooseChange.

I had an earlier post on the same topic here. Thanks for the heads up Cox & Forkum.

1 comment:

Jen said...

Did they mention the conspiracy theory proof of "The Big Lebowski??"

There is a scene where he is in the grocery store, and on the TV is President Bush SR. talking about "the aggression against Kuwait will not stand" and the check that "the Dude" is writing is dated Sept. 11th. Pretty heavy stuff right there. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA



people are nutty!