Bill Whittle at Eject Eject Eject has written a piece that needed to be said, and really needs to be read — in it he takes on the psychosis that is conspiracy thinking. He takes on the popular consipiracies of our day: the moon landing, the Kennedy assasination, contrails (or chemtrails), and the grand-daddy of them all, 9/11.
And he concludes that those capable of honestly believing this crap — that our own government and thousand of accomplices have deceived the American public and the rest of the world to fake a moon landing, kill a sitting President, poison or citizens using commercial airliners, and destroy the World Trade Centers — are mentally ill.
I couldn’t agree more.
And he has a special note for Rosie:
“This is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel,” she said. This is a statement of such pristine and perfect idiocy that it surely must be emblazoned in stone across the entrance to the Physics Imbecile wing of the Moron Museum of Natural History. But mastery of physics and engineering requires some intelligence, some perseverance and some discipline: none of which are in evidence in this buffoon. Everything is a conspiracy to a mind this far gone. The 15 British sailors kidnapped at sea? All a plan by our evil (but incompetent!) government to get the next war it so desperately needs. “Gulf of Tonkin! Google It, people!†she said on national TV.
And I will, Rosie. I promise. As soon as I finish googling MAD COW DISEASE.
I will make the point yet again because I believe it is the crux of the issue: what kind of moral universe do you have to inhabit to be able to believe that your own people – airline personnel, demolition experts, police and security forces, faked witnesses and all the rest – are capable of such a thing? How much hate for your own society do you have to carry in order to live in such a desolate and ridiculous mental hell? What psychoses must a mind be riddled with in order to negate what was perfectly obvious and instead believe a theory of such monumental fantasy? How much pure constant hatred does that take?
What, in short, is the miserable black hole of self-loathing that drives a person like Rosie O’Donnell and millions like her?
Go read the entire thing.
I can’t wait for part three, where Mr. Whittle takes on Global Warming.
(h/t SeeDubya at JunkYard Blog)
The thing about the WTC conspiracy theories that I don’t get is what’s the added power to those theory over reality: we know for fact that someone ran two planes into the World Trade Center- isn’t that a satisfactory conspiracy?!?
As an architect, I especially don’t understand people who don’t believe that fire can cause steel to buckle- why do they think people go to the trouble of putting fireproofing on steel beams and columns if it can’t melt?
However, the ‘psychosis’ theory seems a little heavy handed. As a non-believer it simply seems to come from a similar impulse as religion: something so awesome cannot be so banal as 4 guys with box cutters or a lone wacko in the book depository.
Left by Preston on April 18th, 2007 at 11:13 am