Kea wrote:
I feel like some people find it almost comforting to believe in a world where everything is orchestrated by an evil mastermind in the White House, instead of it being a chaotic place where various greedy, corrupt, deranged, angry, misguided and incompetent people blow up buildings and wage foolish wars for no good reason.
I think this is it. I remember arguing the JFK assassination with my brother and one thing I noticed, and have noticed about every conspiracy theory since then, is that embedded in them is the hope that there is a plan. That it isn't possible for some random event to completely shatter our daily experience. They don't want to live in a world where a random nut with a rifle can kill the president. Or a random nut with a semiautomatic military derived rifle can shoot their way into a school and kill a couple dozen children. Or that a group of twenty dedicated but twisted individuals can hijack airplanes and use them as weapons
How much safer, how much more comfortable the world is, when every disaster was planned by someone who is actually in control. Sure, they're evil. But at least it isn't random, at least there is control.
Eta Carinae will explode. If its poles are aligned with Earth (they aren't), it will irradiate the planet and kill everything that is not an underground bacterium. A meteor slammed into the Yucatan and wiped out the dinosaurs. A lone gunman killed our president (three times). A nutcase shot my Representative through the head. The world is not planned and control is an illusion.
And as far at the 9/11 truthers are concerned, my uncle is an AA pilot and knew the crews who went down. My aunt had an office in the E ring of the Pentagon at the time. It happened.