21-01-2014, 03:40 PM
9/11 was more traumatic to the American people than the JFK assassination, IMO, and it struck deeper psychological nerves. It terrified people on a more personal level. Which is why so many Americans refuse to closely examine the case and are satisfied with the official story.
People can accept that a conspiracy killed JFK, but to accept that people within our government were involved in attacking innocent Americans is too terrifying. Deep down inside, most of us still want to believe in the comfortable myths we were taught in school about our institutions.
And most of the political partisans on both sides have figured out how to make the official story politically useful to them, so like the JFK assassination there is no incentive to question it.
Denial is the real problem. Disinformation is a much smaller problem.
People can accept that a conspiracy killed JFK, but to accept that people within our government were involved in attacking innocent Americans is too terrifying. Deep down inside, most of us still want to believe in the comfortable myths we were taught in school about our institutions.
And most of the political partisans on both sides have figured out how to make the official story politically useful to them, so like the JFK assassination there is no incentive to question it.
Denial is the real problem. Disinformation is a much smaller problem.