....for a way to express what I'm feeling right now. I think almost half the country , and if Steven [sic] is right, the Kennedy assassination is the touchstone of that insanity. In the past few days I have read some of the most insane "reasoning" you can possibly imagine.
I'll confess. For a long time I believed in the possibility that a conspiracy was behind Kennedy's assassination. For many years that thought lingered in the back of my mind, never consuming my thoughts but festering nonetheless. That all changed, however, when I watched that aired on the 40th anniversary of that tragic event. Once the facts were presented, there was no question in my mind that Oswald acted alone. The facts were too overwhelming to leave any doubt.
For many people, however, the Kennedy assassination (and the subsequent assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King) shattered their faith in government forever. Now they are willing to believe any wild story that comes along. So much so that the fact that they actually watched planes fly into the World Trade Center buildings doesn't deter for one second their willingness to believe that the government blew the buildings up as a pretext for war. ...
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Bill Whittle
Occam’s Razor is the idea that when confronted with competing theories that explain certain data equally well, the simplest one is usually correct. It’s called Occam’s Razor, and not Occam’s Hypothesis, or Occam’s Theorem, or Occam’s Bit of Useful Advice, because it is a razor – it cuts cleanly and with great efficiency.
And though it pains me to say so, this culture is in desperate need of a shave.
IT’S A CONSPIRACY!
I want to forgo the niceties of the hot towel and go straight for the jugular on this one. My goal here is not to bust any of these four conspiracy theories; that has all been done much more effictively elsewhere. What I am trying to do here is to build a chain of evidence to show a progressively deteriorating epidemic of world-wide insanity, of truly diseased thinking -- not just a misunderstanding or difference of opinion but real, diagnosable mental illness.
I want to get to that disease in a minute -- and the cause of it too – but first let’s examine what some people claim to believe in and the mountains of sand one has to carry in order to bury one’s head so deep. ...
9/11 and The Birth of a Notion
Of course, all of this is just the soup for the main course.
Recently, Rosie O’Donnell said on national television that she believes 9/11 was orchestrated by the US government.
Well, that’s why we went through the steps above. If you believe that the government lied about the moon landing, you can believe they lied about killing JFK. If they lied about JFK, then they can lie about chemtrails. And if they are willing to poison the entire population with aerial spraying, what are a few thousand people in four airliners and a couple of buildings?
Rosie O’ Donnell making such a claim on a major network is a national disgrace. The fact that much of the audience cheered and applauded is nothing less than a national catastrophe.
To her, and to her audience, it is taken as granted that the government is capable of such things. As if “the government” was operated by cyborgs grown in Haliburton vats, rather than by well-meaning and patriotic people that love this country.
"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?
You know who I blame for this pathetic state of affairs? I blame Leonard Nimoy. ...
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Contributed by Bill Faith on April 14, 2007 at 07:28 PM in |