"Within only a few weeks of investigating the Truth movement, for instance, I found I already was hearing the same handful of 9/11 “anomalies” recited to me over and over from emerging Truther factions — Larry Silverstein’s use of the words “pull it,” the molten WTC metal that could only have been melted with thermite, the neat collapse of WTC 7, the failure of NORAD to intercept the hijacked jets. In the case of JFK, and even the French Revolution, conspiracists still can’t agree on who gets the blame — despite the passage of generations. Yet with the 9/11 Truth movement, it took only weeks for conspiracists to collectively declare J’accuse at the trio of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. The Internet has produced a radical democratization of the conspiracist marketplace of ideas. No longer does one have to spend years researching and writing a book to attract attention: One can simply set up a blog, or chime in on someone else’s, with some refinement of the existing collective lore." -Jonathan Kay, Among the Truthers
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:21:19 +0000
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