The Guardian on Loose Change (redux)

[Mashuna]

The excellent Charlie Brooker weighs into the debate, with a review of the upcoming BBC programme on 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Here's a brief extract:

But whoops: people aren't rational. They believe what they want to believe, and when evidence mounts to the contrary, dig their heels in and refuse to change their minds, like dogs that won't be dragged through a doorway. Sometimes the sheer pressure of all that stubbornness causes them to lose their senses completely and become creationists, at which point they're beyond help.

Here's the link.

 

[brodski]

The excellent Charlie Brooker weighs into the debate, with a review of the upcoming BBC programme on 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Here's a brief extract:


Here's the link.

A fantastic article (as long as you remember that Charlie is a TV reviewer offering his opinion, not a journalist out to debunk the CTs) and has provided me with a new sig.
I am abandoning the Play school Truth cameighn...

 

[Mashuna]

I am abandoning the Play school Truth cameighn...

That's fine, I'll see if I can get Mr Brooker to throw his weight behind my quest for justice instead.

 

[eddyk]

The rest of the world isn't asleep. You're just dreaming out loud.

Oo, that's a good one I'll have to use that!

 

[jimbob]

He's done it again:

So, you believe in conspiracy theories, do you? You probably also think you're the Emperor of Pluto:


The whole article is worth a read, but I especially liked this part.

Look hard enough, and dementedly enough, and you can find "proof" that Kevin Bacon was responsible for 9/11 - or the 1987 Zeebrugge ferry disaster, come to that. It'd certainly make for a more interesting story, which is precisely why several thousand well-meaning people would go out of their way to believe it. Throughout my twenties I earnestly believed Oliver Stone's account of the JFK assassination. Partly because of the compelling (albeit wildly selective) way the "evidence" was blended with fiction in his 1991 movie - but mainly because I WANTED to believe it. Believing it made me feel important.

 

[Par]

He's done it again: So, you believe in conspiracy theories, do you? You probably also think you're the Emperor of Pluto.

Mixing Brooker’s cynical and faintly surrealist approach with opposing demented conspiracy theories results in a combination of two of my favourite things – and a rather successful one, as they go; combining two things I like doesn’t always work out so well – driving and… ecstasy, for instance.

 

[Profanz]

On October 24, 2004, he wrote a column on George W. Bush and the forthcoming 2004 US Presidential Election which concluded:
“ John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley, Jr. - where are you now that we need you?"

And this guy still has a job?

 

[johnny karate]

Yes.

 

[Cl1mh4224rd]

And this guy still has a job?

You are aware that The Guardian is a British newspaper, aren't you?