gumboot
lorcutus.tolere
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The sad part, is I am getting the distinct impression that Dylan, unlike Bermas, is growing up and out of (or perhaps just growing tired of) the truth movement. Also, unlike Jones, Avery seems to want to keep his sanity.
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I always had the impression that Dylan was just an opportunist,who saw a chance to make a splash as a filmmaker..to which he had failed ambitions...with a 9/11 conspiracy film pitched to the AnGry Young Man/The Establishment Sucks/Ultra Hip crowd.
Not that he has seen that that dog will not hunt, he is trying to move on without admitting he never bought into the crap anyway. As I said previously, Dylan has been careful to avoid mouthing Jones more insane material. I don't think this was an accident.
I've always had my suspicions that Avery just spawned Loose Change thinking it was a neat idea, and was wholly unprepared for an entire subculture of unhinged nutjobs to actually believe it. At first the "fame" would have been quite intoxicating, and by the time he realised he was on the last train to nutjobville, the seething masses would have had him so firmly under their claws it's quite possible that renouncing them really would have resulted in physical harm to his person (particularly given he was living with some of them!).
If this is all true, and we're seeing Avery's gradual disassociation with the Truth Movement, good for him, and I hope his new life goes well. It would be nice to think that once he's fully removed from the Truth Movement he will have the integrity to man up to the wrong he did and the hateful things he said about so many people, but he's still young after all so such self critique may have to wait a few decades.
Or alternatively maybe I'm wrong and he really does buy it all. It's hard to know.