9/11 Conspiracies

     To start, I wasn't too thrilled about the class choosing 9/11 conspiracies to be the focus of this unit. I hoped for ones I had more of an interest in, not because of the events themselves but because of the evidence behind them (JFK, RFK, MLK). And that's not to say I didn't have interest in 9/11 conspiracy theories, I've actually spent a decent amount of my time looking into them before, and believe me, there's enough merit to some that made that time well spent. But that being said, after taking the big picture into account, their validity sort of disappaited in my mind.

      I don't believe the government always acts in our best interest, and I'm all but positive 9/11 is one of many events we're routinely lied to about as a nation. Those lies however, to me at least, don't reveal anything regarding our government staging an attack to earn our backing. More than anything, they reveal an administration too incompetent to fill the holes in their logic, let alone conspire so discretely within itself.  This was the same administration that couldn't manage a watertruck into Katrina torn New Orleans, let alone plan and execute an attack on its own nation under our noses. Frankly I find it hard to believe Bush could manage to plan out a bowl of cereal, let alone an ingeniusly manipulative plot to trick a nation into a rallying cry.  What we know is probably the tip of the iceburg in my mind, but I firmly believe Bush himself is barely past that tip either. 

     I'm going off what I know, and what I know is our government is often filled with gaping holes in competance. Too many for something this major not to slip through. Behind the curtains, who knows how the world, or our government, truly operates.  But that's a dark curtain, and one none of us will  ever be close to seeing. So with 9/11, and for that matter world affairs in general, I do feel our knowledge is surface level. But suggesting that it's as flat out as our own government secretly being responsible, to me, is actually too simple. It has to run deeper, and it's probably deeper than we'll ever realize. Did the government know how to exploit 9/11? Absolutely. Were they remotely aware of it beforehand? Maybe, but I'd mark that as incompetance. Maybe I'm too untrusting, but the world is a scary place. In my mind, 9/11 is just one of countless instances thats true backstory is something the public will never know. I'm not talking about Illuminati, or Free Masons, or Aliens, im talking about the disparities between what we as the mundane masses know as compared to the reality of our societies possible deep inner workings. It's a general conspiracy theory, but what im basically saying is I think there are larger and deeper conspiracies in our world. And saying 9/11 was perpetrated by our own government directly just seems too simple . And I especially don't believe anyone would think it's a good idea to put this massively intricate plot into the hands of man with a slightly above average IQ and a tendency to mispronounce the word "nuclear".