Talk about conspiracies has grown a lot in the last ten years. There has always been talking about conspiracies but some ten years ago such was not that much in the mainstream than it is nowadays. The internet has clearly played an important role in this. I know that from a personal involvement.
Prior to the events of 9/11 I wasn’t really that much interested in conspiracies. By the word ”conspiracy” I got into my mind persons who had taken Robert Anton Wilson’s and Robert Shea’s The Illuminatus!-trilogy a bit too seriously. Such persons seemed to me to be suffering from some sort of mental problems or having a weird pathological tendency to think fantastic anti-Occam’s razor explanations to events. I didn’t see anything fascinating in it. On the contrary, such was – and is – rather repugnant and irritating to me. Fantasy is great when it is kept in its proper realm but when it is slipped into explanations of the world of five senses and the laws of physics it is sheer lunacy.
To me, the most interesting conspiracy prior to 9/11 was that of the John F. Kennedy assassination. The official explanation that a lone nutjob Oswald did it just didn’t seem to make much sense in the light of all the evidence. I was curious about the case but I didn’t really explore it as it didn’t deal importantly enough with my life and my pastime interests were elsewhere. This was in the early 90’s.
Years passed. I got married with an American. 9/11 happened. From the very beginning I sensed that there was something rather odd in the whole event. Nevertheless, I initially took the official explanation of the events as true. Because of my family connection to the States the whole event became much more close and personal to me than it would have otherwise been. I followed closely how the whole ”war on terror” unfolded. Then, one day, a friend of mine sent me some links to websites that questioned the official explanation of the event. My friend whom I knew to be a rather rational person and not prone to some ridiculous conspiracy theories seemed to be serious about them. I was intrigued and visited those websites. That changed my world.
I was shocked. My worldview got a major hit. If you looked at the events of 9/11 with an Occam’s razor the official story didn’t make sense. The event was a world-changing one. It wasn’t something that stayed just on an American soil. This was a start of a new cold war, if you will. This was affecting the whole world. And all of a sudden I found out that I was a ”nutjob conspiracy theorist”, according to some. It was a bizarre situation to find myself in, to say the least.
I became active in exploring the whole thing. The deeper you got the uglier it got. I became active in the 9/11 Truth movement, discussing a lot about it, reading a lot about it, watching a lot of documentaries and clips about it, taking a part to a special ”conspiracy”-seminar in a university here, and I was also organizing one relatively big 9/11 Truth movement occasion here in Finland in 2008. I did this and much more, to put years of an active involvement in a way too small nutshell.
Hmm.
Back in the 90’s much of what now goes under the concept ”conspiracies” was just about an honest, open minded and critical look at the world. Not anymore. Back in the 90’s being a ”conspiracy theorist” was something else. Being a ”conspiracy theorist” now (and I’m talking about 9/11 here) seems to mean to many that by questioning the official story you are automatically a weirdo who hates America and who tends to think that 9/11 was an inside job just because it is supposedly psychologically easier to handle than thinking that 19 fanatical muslims did it – and that it gives meaning to your otherwise meaningless life. Not true. I don’t hate America and I think it is psychologically much tougher to think that someone else than 19 bearded cavemen did it and that what we are fed with is lies about the event. I am not a weirdo who would not have better things to do than to dwell on this. I had life before of 9/11 and I still do. I think it just makes sense to try to understand the world we live in and to love the truth of things and to not like being fooled and to not like living in a big contextual bullshit. Period. That is common sense.
By definition, there is nothing new about a ”conspiracy”. A conspiracy can be defined as:
1) An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subersive act.
2) A group of conspirators.
3) An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4) A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design.
The world is full of conspiracies and has always been full of various kind of conspiracies, big and small. You can find conspiracies all the way from your own workplace to the big world politics today. And if you have any knowledge of history you should be able to think of various well known and true historical conspiracies immediately. There is nothing odd about conspiracies or thinking that such have existed and still do exist. They have always existed and always will exist.
As it is today, when it comes to 9/11, it seems to me that the official story is becoming more and more viewed as a ”nutjob conspiracy theory” – a theory that is more against the Occam’s razor than the most known theories that question it. No wonder that the 9/11 Truth movement has not got diminished by the years but has got much bigger and stronger, gaining support not only from laymen, but also from scientists and top politicians alike throughout the world.
For those of you who are interested in all of this and are new to this thing, check out for the starters these websites: 9/11 Truth, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and 9/11 blogger. Also check out the documentaries 9/11 Mysteries, Loose Change the Final Cut and 9/11 Press for Truth. Also worth checking are Dr. David Ray Griffin’s lecture 9/11 – The myth and the reality and an ex-MI5 agent Annie Machon’s thoughts on the subject. You might also like to see what Dr. Niels Harrit from Denmark have recently found out about the event with an international team of physicists, what Japanese top politician Yukihisa Fujita has done about the thing in Japan and what an ex-general of all American intelligence has to say about this.
Call me a nutjob if you want.
