Lev Grossman, author of Why The 9/11 Conspiracies Won't Go Away (CNN/Time.com), forgot to mention money as a reason from demolishing the world trade center buildings, ie. if the government were actually involved. This is problematic when someone tells people to forget what they are seeing, or what is missing, but to go with "the official reason" only. Take one or the other, they are saying, and make it the official explanation that gets accepted as the one and only truth.
Is there anything wrong with asking questions, with just wanting to know what might have happened? The way this writer puts it it's something only odd people who would want to do. I think that the idea that there were facts without analysis or documentation in the alternative version is a problem the makers of such alternative versions of 9/11 blame on the govt, not the other way around, as this man is. Again, it's a matter of who has the authority and resources get analyses (such as on thermate) done?
I believe also it's about time they stopped calling them "conspiracy theories," a term that might lead people to reject writers or film-makers who present alternative views. The world is extremely complex, usually with many strands of 'truth' embedded in any narrative of an event. Simplifying it by coming up with a fact-based notion reduced to a single 'cause' isn't usually the way things work in real life. Usually, many people and many different threads are bound up in any simple notion of the truth, in a way that ignores vital missing evidence and theoretical explanations. When people's stories and visual evidence is dismissed and downplayed by the authorities gathering evidence, there is a tendency to let it go, to say it doesn't matter. It's only one persons' word. But if that is done time and time again, then there can be a great deal of truth left undiscovered.
It's not surprising that the people who made the film Loose Change did it on a shoe-string budget. That's what happens when those with the resources to get something done properly want to make sure one's work is marginalised and not taken seriously. People should pay attention to their instincts and thoughts on this matter, and question what is being said, officially, and reconsider their own beliefs and the truth of 9/11.
Why the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Won't Go Away
By Lev Grossman
Time magazine
Sept 3, 2006
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1531304-1,00.html
Link updated April 18, 2012
2 comments:
The reason why the conspiracies won't go away is because people cannot accept simple facts anymore due to a culture of anti-establishment created more or less from the civil rights movement. Governments don't exactly have a squeaky clean image, certainly not nowadays, so when 9/11 happens the first instinct is to blame the government, especially as war is so profitable to certan companies, etc. Personally, I have seen the loose change argument and think it's all a load of rubbish. Conspiracies need scheduling etc and with no whistleblowers at all it's hard to believe in a conspiracy like that. We're talking fanatical terrosrists here. People who wouldn't have a problem with creating a massacre on that scale and whether it worked or failed. It's hard to believe any government doign such thing slike that to its own citizens in a free world. In Nazi Germany definitely, but America? I doubt it very much!
I agree that many are just theories and evidence that only seem like propaganda amongst the conspirators. Loose change and others are picking on anomalies that they feel are reasons to believe that the 9/11 attacks were atleast, known by the government as they happened. There are theories out there that do make sense and answer alot of the questions regarding the mysteries that those documentaries continue to promote but never answer. Check this one out slightly for the advanced researcher but easy to understand... seems reasonable enough to get some attention!
http://www.opinionnoted.com/911-flightplan-alternative-theories/
Sue, nice article by the way, really points out the reasons for the dividing line amongst the population.
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