Question of the Day
Mar. 22nd, 2006 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ayoubIf the government was responsible for the greatest terrorist attack in history, would you want to know?
Today's question paraphrased from the movie V for Vendetta
ayoubToday's question paraphrased from the movie V for Vendetta
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Date: 2006-03-22 12:23 pm (UTC)Think of how much mileage he has gotten from 9/11, it his way of frightening everyone into doing what he wants.
But, anyway, yeah, I would... we need to shatter the illusions that the government is looking out for our interests.
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Date: 2006-03-22 06:52 pm (UTC)The saddest part is... if you could come out with cold, hard, incontrovertible *proof* of that... the majority of the American public would prefer to believe that you fabricated it.
Some people don't like to have their illusions shattered.
The irony of 9/11 is that it wasn't like America *wasn't* just as vulnerable to terrorist attack as any other place on earth prior to that event... it's that the citizens believed themselves to be safe. 9/11 shattered their illusions of safety - that were baseless to begin with.
They now prefer to believe that x-raying peoples' shoes and taking away their nail-clippers and reading their email and tapping their phones somehow restored that illusory safety.
You can't shatter illusions that the people hold on to with such ferocity in the face of staggering proof against them.
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Date: 2006-03-22 05:14 pm (UTC)http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=loose+change
Jesse (http://liketherazor.livejournal.com/) is obsessed with the idea that the government planned 911 lately
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Date: 2006-03-23 04:10 am (UTC)Personally, whatever anyone thinks, they should watch this. I was just floored.. and I dont see any thing that hasnt been backed up in this documentary.
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Date: 2006-03-23 04:15 am (UTC)So I guess the answer to the question of the day is that I would rather not know.
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Date: 2006-03-22 06:48 pm (UTC)Because knowing - and knowing whilst others know as well - are two different things.
Knowing something the general public does NOT know - or refuses to believe is true - is a burden that isn't fun to bear.
Nothing like being labeled a whack-job, conspiracy theorist, paranoid... the list goes on... simply because you admit to knowledge that seems absurd or terrifying to your fellow man.
But yeah - I suppose I'd want to know - because I'm a knowledge junkie. I've learned just to keep my mouth shut about things that anyone in the 'mainstream' public would look askance at.
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Date: 2006-03-23 06:15 am (UTC)they are already hiding aliens from us.
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