Years ago, I watched zeitgeist. They presented a very compelling argument for 9/11 being an inside job - why did the safeguards fail? What about building 7? Etc. I was like, damn. This is extremely convincing.
But the second section was about the bible, and the bible is probably-
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the thing I knew the most about. They argued it was unoriginal/conspiracy created, and they used bible verses out of context, deliberate misinterpretations, cherry picking, mistranslated versions of verses I knew the Greek behind. After that, I couldn't believe in-
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Their 9/11 argument. If they were gonna be so uncharitable with something I knew about, I couldn't trust them with other things.
This is how I feel with a lot of popular narratives around oppression, privilege, trauma, etc. I find the narrative flawed for a subset I know a lot-
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about (woman raised in extreme subculture of patriarchy), and so I just don't trust the narratives people use about all the other stuff, even though it seems sensible enough at it's surface to draw in large support.
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Wait, I'm still stuck on the 'i found a 9/11 conspiracy theory compelling'...ive always found them ludicrous on their face, let alone when you dig into the details...how does such an otherwise intelligent person like you find them compelling at all???
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If someone gives you cherrypicked data, anything can seem compelling if you don't know to be on the lookout.
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If 9/11 was an actual event, none of those core columns would be cut on a 45° angle, they would have been bent over/snapped in a haphazard way. That’s pretty much what I’ve been stuck on since it happened
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They were cut like that during cleanup and removal. You can find before/after photos.
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I learned a lot about debt, banking, and the Fed from . Unfortunate that he advocates socialism though
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good work averting Gell-Mann Amnesia!
(I was shown zeitgeist in 10th grade history class, maybe by a substitute? Might've been supposed to be a lesson on fake news, but lesson was very ambiguous if-so. I guess it made me more skeptical in all directions)
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Gell-Mann amnesia is when you see a report on a subject you know well, and you immediately recognize the report’s deep lack of understanding. But then the news moves onto a subject you don't know well, and you forget how ill-informed they just seemed. epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amne
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