Rushkoff on 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists

Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by admin.
Categories: tv, important, psychology, People, lecture, politics, text.

Here’s an excellent read, and a good introduction to a man I’d like you to meet: Douglas Rushkoff.

“I have to admit that I do this with some trepidation. I can already feel the assault on my inbox. But after a good long think about potential time and energy being lost by our entire community to senseless and ultimately inconsequential musings, I have to come out and say it: the alternative theories about 9-11 are wrong. Worse, the endless theorizing and speculation about trajectories, explosives, military tests, fake airplane parts and remote control navigation actually distracts some of our best potential activists from addressing the more substantive matters at hand.

Yes, I believe that 9-11 theorizing debilitates the counterculture. It robs us of some potentially creative thinkers. It replaces truly important questions with trivial ones. It marginalizes more constructive investigation of American participation in the development of Al Qaeda as well as its subsequent aggravation. And perhaps worst of all, it is precisely the sort of activity that government disinformation specialists would want us to be involved with.“



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waterdancer
Comment on September 25th, 2007.

Rushkoff’s ability to harbor two seemingly contradictory thoughts at the same time is rather mindblowing, is it not? Somehow we are at once “potentially creative thinkers” (i.e. people he might consider worth listening to while he sits upon his omniscient pedestal which his worhippers have made for him) and yet the title of his piece is Conspiracies of Dunces. He refers to “this drivel”. Somehow, Pilots for 9/11 Truth gets used as an example of what should be eschewed in an article which is ostensibly about “9-11 theorizing”. According to the website pilotsfor911truth.org - “We do not offer theory or point blame at this point in time.” Sounds like drivel to me. But perhaps Rushkoff merely contains Whitmanesque multitudes.

Please visit the site patriotsquestion911.org to view a few of the “potentially creative minds” which Rushkoff dismisses so easily. Perhaps so easily in fact, that non critical thinking readers might never become aware of the following patriotic individuals who dare to question the “official conspiracy theory” as embodied by the Kean/Zelikow commission report

110+ Senior Military, Intelligence Service, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials
220+ Engineers and Architects
50+ Pilots and Aviation Professionals
160+ Professors Question 9/11
190+ 9/11 Survivors and Family Members
100+ Entertainment and Media Professionals

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