“Perhaps my cynical nature and high level of skepticism make me susceptible to conspiracy theories but I believe the story our government is telling us about 9/11 is mostly fabrication.”
If you are truly skeptical, you should be less susceptible to conspiracy theories, not more. For most of the conspiracy theories that are out there to be true, thousands of people would all have to keep giant secrets. Any amount of skepticism should keep you from believing that such a thing could happen.
“Anyone who believes the official story is a blithering idiot.”
Heavyduty follows that not-very-well-thought-out statement with equally well-thought-out arguments and documentation backing up his position.
People who believe conspiracy theories generally believe them for the same reason people believe that housing won’t go down: they want to believe them, and they therefore engage in confirmation bias. They’ll ignore overwhelming evidence that their theories are not true, and focus on the scant evidence that supports their case. Then they’ll ignore that evidence that refutes the scant evidence that supports their case.
Why would anyone want to believe these theories? Perhaps it makes them feel smart. “All these blithering idiots believe this story. I must be smarter than them.” Or maybe they like the adrenalin rush they get from their world view. “Holy shit!! WE knocked the towers down!!!” Maybe they’re super-left wing nuts who’d really like to discredit the neocons. Maybe they’re super-right wing nuts who want to discredit our entire government (our entire system of government.
“Powayseller, pay no attention to that nonsensical, unresearched crap KEWP just posted, he or she doesnt know what they’re talking about. He doesnt know “shinola” about architecture and demolition. Probably some programmer sitting in his cubicle postulating on the web when he should be working for his boss.”
Powayseller, pay no attention to LOB’s rhetoric. It contains no information or logic or reason or facts or evidence whatsoever. Sure, maybe 50% of the people in this country polled by USA Today do believe there was a conspiracy. But don’t forget that half the people in this country have IQs of less than 100, also (probably the same half that reads USA Today). None of that is any evidence of a conspiracy.
I despise the neocons much more than your average person. But to say that they planned and executed 9/11 and then covered it up gives them way too little credit for humanness and way too much credit for cleverness.
