10-03-2014, 09:23 PM
There's a surprising number of people who know that JFK was killed as a result of a conspiracy and yet dismiss outright the notion that 9/11 could be the result of similar high-level collaboration and malfeasance.
How the cognitive dissonance involved in this kind of thinking evades them I'll never know. I suppose it's part of a curious mindset wherein arbitrary ethical lines are drawn as to what "they" will or won't do; i.e. "Oh, they would do X but they would never do Y."
Well, I think we all know by now that there is nothing that "they" wouldn't do.
How the cognitive dissonance involved in this kind of thinking evades them I'll never know. I suppose it's part of a curious mindset wherein arbitrary ethical lines are drawn as to what "they" will or won't do; i.e. "Oh, they would do X but they would never do Y."
Well, I think we all know by now that there is nothing that "they" wouldn't do.
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.â€
― Leo Tolstoy,
― Leo Tolstoy,