maxdimario wrote on Wed, 19 September 2007 10:12 |
labelling everything black or white, us and them etc. is necessary to control large groups of people with relatively little effort.
'conspiracy theorists', 'truthist' etc. are labels which only apply to those who are willing to get into the game and fight it out as opposing teams.... or ARMIES
I do not want to belong to any such team or media-coined group, nor do I want to take anyone's word as the truth without analyzing it personally.
The first thing people reach for when they have difficulty digesting something uncomfortable is to dehumanize the source of info. and stick a label on them so that their buddies (comrades, fellow soldiers, team-members etc.) will step in and the fighting begins.
but it really has NOTHING to do with us.. or them.. because the sort of military operations such as 911 WERE NOT ORGANIZED BY US..OR THEM!
they were necessarily organized by a SMALL GROUP of INDEPENDENT people with totally different objectives, values and economic standing than the average AMERICAN or ARAB or EUROPEAN or AFRICAN citizen..any normal citizen of any land.
in short labelling people 'conspiracy theorists' or any other name which incites mindless group-thinking and antagonism places the whole issue into a war-context.
it also makes simple issues confusing and overly emotional.
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Max, you are the biggest "us and them"er in here!
Just because you think of "us" as being the "common" people, all over the world, be they American, European or Arab, and "them" as being the people controlling everythihg, be they American, European or Arab (you seem to have varying ideas on exactly which group "they" are though, sometimes it's government, sometimes it's coporations, sometimes it's banks, sometimes it's "the old money banking families") doesn't change the fact that you display a hugely simplistic "us and them" attitude, you'll attribute just about anything nefarious to "them", no matter how weak the evidence or indeed how poor the logic.
My statement above, whilst perhaps overly simplistic, was referring to the fact that you have to apply the same standards to all sources of information, something which the SELF PROCLAIMED "truthers" preach but regularly fail to do.