“taking a cynical stance toward politics, mistrusting authority, endorsing democratic practices, feeling generally suspicious toward others and displaying an inquisitive, imaginative outlook.”
Sounds like me. I’m not one who believes these theories about 9/11 or for that matter Obama’s birth certificate. The fun thing to do when you meet these guys at parties which happens alot here (keep Austin weird?) is to get them going and then find a few things they can’t agree on and let them go at it.
They forget all about you with your Osama did it idea and start screaming over planted explosives or alien lasers or zionist businessmen etc etc. It’s great viewing with popcorn and Shiner Bock!
and seriously deluded.
The South Park episode on this is definitive. One in four people are absolute idiots. It’s really no more complicated than that.
Inquisitive is a kind and soothing word. They’re “inquisitive” and “suspicious” about everything _except_ for conspiracy theories, which need satisfy no standard of logic, evidence or rationality.
Most Americans have watched dozens of slow motion building demolitions on TV.
To my eye, the close up slow motion films of the two WTC’s going down looked exactly like every other planned implosion I ever watched.
For weeks after 9-11, I assumed the terrorists had used explosives to trigger the collapse of both buildings.
Only after I learned that the intense heat from the jet fuel fire could soften and weaken uninsulated steel did I completely change my mind.
One thing does still mystify me about the implosion theory.
If it really did happen that way, why do so many people think the USA government did it, and not the terrorists?
Never saw it as a planned implosion from the simple fact that each collapse start in the area of the aircraft impact just like you would expect...
This misses the real reason for the conspiracy folks and it is the same kind of folks who buy into grand government control theories.
As much as they fear and distrust authority (probably related to their child hood), their real fear is that the authorities are not in control. It is plain to see that our government is not fully in control of events and cannot protect us, just as a child someday realizes that their parents are not able to protect them.
These people cannot handle this truth so they conjure up an imaginary government, a shadow government. This government is the real cause of these events and is always in control of everything. To them WTC event was controlled rather than uncontrolled. To them the recession is manufactured, to them all bad events are in control only they are in control of a shadow government.
Man is no more in control of the evil in this world than he is of the global climate. It is hubris to think otherwise.
They also deny the reality that God is in ultimate control and that the patterns of evil are part of the satanic control that is allowed to control the earth.
I'm not sure I agree with the theories about grand conspiracies (Bilderbergs, CFR, Rothschild's, etc.), but I DO believe that conspiracies abound in our government. It is at the very core of how our government works. (you vote for my bill and I'll vote for yours) Of course in polite circles this is called “compromise.”
There are uncountable small conspiracies in DC. Oftentimes they interconnect and weave through one another. All government is “wheels within wheels.”
The government is ultimately responsible. Why were these people allowed into the country to begin with? Same reason the border with Mexico is not secured.
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