The events of Sept. Theorists are coming out from the margins of society and into the digital sphere to share their thoughts and speculations. But what exactly defines a conspiracy theory or a conspiracy theorist? Instead, conspiracies can be as straightforward as the big business of pharmaceutical companies. Most relatable are the conspiracies surrounding Sept. Initially following the attacks, authorities denied prior knowledge or warnings of the events.
But history and evidence have since proven otherwise. That active pursuit of conspiracies is one aspect of the phenomenon that survivors and their families find galling. Hans Gerhardt lost his son Ralph Gerhardt in the north tower. He says he's been approached by strangers "who wanted to share what they knew about 'what really was taking place. Abigail Carter, who lost her husband Arron Dack in the attacks, shrugs off the conspiracy theories, especially after her architect father explained the buildings' structure to her.
It doesn't really hold water to me. I think the building did exactly what it was designed to do. It's a curious phenomenon: intelligent, educated people believing in conspiracies that require leaps of faith far greater than acceptance of the official government line. Goertzel says it used to be conspiracies worked best among people who were physically isolated in a sect or geographic pocket.
Paradoxically, with the global flood of information, there's a new form of isolation. Conspiracy thinking, said Goertzel, "can be an excuse not to deal with things because, why should I worry about my career when the sky is about to fall down due to this vast conspiracy? But with the repercussions of still rattling through our security-obsessed society, there remains plenty of fuel to keep the conspiratorial fires hot and raging.
MacQueen points to a poll of 16, people in 17 countries that found only 46 per cent believed al-Qaida was responsible for the terrorist attacks. If you use this assumption, he said, "that would mean Canadians are killing and dying in Afghanistan — or they have been in the past — on the basis of a lie.
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F or years the doors were tightly closed when it came to finding information on conspiracies, and theorists were stereotyped as tin-foil hat wearing weirdos.
Those perceptions began to change with the emergence of the internet, and the terror attacks on September 11 th. As more and more people shared information online, it became clear to many that mainstream media was offering only snippets of the full story, and quite often their political allegiances and agendas were skewing the information available to the public.
W ith more interest in conspiracies and a mounting distrust of the media, Whyte saw a void, and decided he would try to fill it. H e opened Conspiracy Culture in August of , and has seen a steady stream of seekers pass through his doors since. He also admits that offering that information can have inherent risks. Potential North American Union :. JFK was the end of the age of innocence where people really lost faith in the government and what was really being done behind the scenes.
People seem to be really interested in the secret organizations that exist and basically dictate how we as pawns in society live our lives. Weather Manipulation:. I mean various governments have been utilizing weather modification for years.
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