16-09-2010, 03:42 PM
The recently-released book "Cognitive Infiltration" by Dr. David Ray Griffin published by Olive Branch Press (2011) is sitting on my desk. It is a discussion of both the draft and the final copies of Cass Sunstein's essay on conspiracy theories in which he introduced the term "crippled epistomologies". So far, I am up through page 62, but well beyond pages 28-42 in which he dismantles the "crippled episotomogy" concept. I refer all who promote the Sunstein argument and especially the idea that the epistomology of the 9/11 Truth movement is either flawed or cripped to those pages and the book as a whole and would suggest strongly you read footnote #128 (six paragraphs, 56 lines long) on pages 166-167. I do remember the dismissive and pejorative comments many years ago about how a theologian could possibly be qualified to argue the matter; his own credentials, far greater than any ever presented in these threads in brief, are noted on pages 29-31.
Reading Griffin's work is like watching an accomplished aikido master take on a street thug. I am only through page 62 in the detailed reading, but I have to offer up the last lines of the book: "If [Sunstein's argument and the illegalities of his proposals] is the best plan for dealing with the growing influence of the 9/11 Truth movement that can be devised by "the pre-eminent legal scholar of our time", is it not time to throw in the towel?"
Reading Griffin's work is like watching an accomplished aikido master take on a street thug. I am only through page 62 in the detailed reading, but I have to offer up the last lines of the book: "If [Sunstein's argument and the illegalities of his proposals] is the best plan for dealing with the growing influence of the 9/11 Truth movement that can be devised by "the pre-eminent legal scholar of our time", is it not time to throw in the towel?"
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"