I was talking to my step son about this the other day. People are drawn to extremes but the truth often lies in the middle. So don't take everything the Government and the media tell you at face value but also don't rush headlong into falling head,line and sinker for what conspiracy theorists want to sell you. I don't really need to worry about him because being on the autistic spectrum he actually is very good at picking the truth out of the rubbish. His capacity for logic and factual recall blows me away every day.
The site you pointed to is great at pointing out this fact in pointing out how the real conspiracy happened after 9/11 in the way the west used the attack to pursue their own interests, with the invasion of Iraq and the war on terror.
Conspiracy theorists and very straight conventional people both seem to have the same cognitive dissonance in which they refuse to accept you are not a disciple of one extreme or the other. If you disagree with one opinion, or point of view which they posit as fact, they assume you must be from the other camp. This is actually the root of virtually every single argument I have had with Brockton and Miles on the forum. It even happens on a smaller and less virulent scale on the boxing boards between other posters where it is assumed you are either an ignorant noobie fan who only knows and credits boxers of the last 5,10,15 years (Floyd etc) or an old Dinosaur only rating Louis, Armstrong, Robinson etc. The same happens with Ali- Blameless hero or complete Charlatan Coward.
I think the forum format exaggerates it because debate is wrongly mistaken as war with no common ground. In real life common ground is often the starting point of a conversation. My step son summed it up for me when he said "When is the last time you heard somebody admit they were wrong in an Internet argument?"


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comment- Tells me I need to grow a thicker skin. Suck it up when I'm being questioned.
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