But who exactly am I calling nuts?
Here is a brief version of the official conspiracy theory:
36% of Americans believe this story, the same percent that still believe Saddam had WMDs.
I get that these numbers will be disputed, I choose them specifically so they would be. My hope is that someone will post the wiki numbers or some low ball number. Which is eventually where I'll try to take this thread.
If there are those willing to fast-forward this, I'm happy to as well.
Give me any numbers. I'm good. I'll take them undisputed. Numbers matter in US policy is the point I'm getting to.
You can have low numbers, such as support for the invasion of Syria after they crossed the redline. This story was sold with a chemical attack I don't think we ever heard who carried out. It was sold by every major candidate of the century as ok, and Obama had the power to go in alone. But we have numbers and numbers are barely hitting double digits in support. So Obama carries on with the conflict indirectly.
The media offers "balanced" coverage. All those in favor vs an equal number against are represented and the media makes all kinds of side stories.
Of course this isn't a balanced issue. Yet the meager minority voice is heard extremely loudly, and the minority vote gets to maintain its campaign regardless, it just doesn't get to expand.
Well Syria has been on the radar since it was declared a part of the axis of evil in 2002. Our Nobel prize winning president has added (created?) it's current situation. And at some point, perhaps with the right change in perception by the public, an irreversible policy will be carried out.
In other words, a situation can be agitated until through the agitation, an event can be sold to the public that will let the government carry out its intentions in a swoop.
Let's examine some of the "change" promised and yet to occur:
Transparency
Oversight
War on drugs
Torture
Surveillance
Bank reform
The major change that occurred Obamacare, actually rewarded those causing the problems.
As such, nothing really changed except perception. Now it's the democrats, the opponents of these very same policies under Bush, who are supporting them.
If it's two camps, or two plus the minor dissenting camp, we are spoonfed perception by those who received corporate backing from those who will benefit from the policies.
Why the number of people who believe this or that about 9/11 don't matter is because the other numbers which are far more important matter.
Whether the government orchestrated 9/11 or just let it happen, or were so grossly incompetent that it is equal to letting it happen (which are really the only three options), doesn't matter.
What matters is how they, in conjunction with the media, used it maximize the profits of their corporate sponsors. What matters is how they used it to maximize their power over their citizens and the world.
Long after Osama is dead and gone, long after the Soviets fell, long after Obama's peace prize, we are spending $700bn annually on war with no end in sight.
My question to anyone is: knowing that an event can alter perception guided by the media and government, how are you able to make informed decisions about the future and have them implemented?
