by The Ace1983 » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:06 pm
The thing is, conspiricy theorists are necessary. They don't have to be nut-cases or crack-heads. My mate's dad is a pilot and the most level headed guy you'll ever meet. But he doesn't beleive that America ever landed on the moon. He's watched the tape and has found reason, method and evidence for the hoax. He doesn't lock himself in his loft with his "papers". He plays football, throws parties and cooks a mean BBQ. Hardly A-grade nutter material.
9/11 will always have conspiracy theorists going at it, just like the assassinations of King, X, Kennedy, Lennon, Oswald and pretty much everyone else who's ever been assassinated. UFOlogists will continue to say that those stange lights in the sky at night are crawling with little green men. Prove them wrong. Conspiracies are only called conspiracies because the minority believes in them. But without them, we would believe anything our governments, teachers, armed forces, traffic wardens and milkmen told us. They give us necessary doubt, which does exactly what it says on the tin. It is imperative that we don't believe, as much as we believe.
Despite Lando's obvious distaste for them, they need to be around. I don't believe this lot either, but a lot of people do. Even family members of people who died in 9/11 are sure that it was the American Government who commited this atrocity. There is some sort of grim logic there as well, but that takes ages to get into.
The end of this argument is that people will believe whatever they believe, be it in a religious sense, a cultural or historical sense, or what sort of apple makes the best pie. You'll never change anything and you won't silence them, but they shouldn't be ignored, altered or shushed becuase with out them we would be very vulnerable indeed.
