Reframing the Story
"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
— Arthur Schopenhauer
All of us - individuals and nations - have fictitious myths that we create, believe, and weave our identities into. We have all invented some aspect of ourselves, or the world, that we desperately want to believe, often despite ample evidence pointing to the absurdity and falseness of the created myth. This myth creation is some kind of defensive mechanism, used to evoke a sense of security in an insecure world, utilized to invoke a sense of personal worth in an often brutal and uncaring world. And while the psychology behind this myth making is an interesting and worthy topic for another essay, the principal subject of this paper is the fact that we have dramatically animated and amplified one of these myths. And it has metastasized into an out of control force that is wreaking havoc in our own country, and across the globe.
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, something tragic and terrible took place in New York City, Washington D.C., and rural Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, the actual facts, context, and details of what it was that truly took place that day have been swallowed by the force and momentum of what is now perhaps the largest American myth that exists; i.e. the story that 19 Arab hijackers, under the exclusive direction of Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, and fueled by a religiously driven fundamental hatred and jealousy of American values, blind-sided and plunged an unforeseen dagger into the heart of American democracy, freedom, and innocence.
What follows in this essay is not a promotion, nor a defense, of any kind of 'conspiracy theory' regarding the events of September 11, 2001. It is, instead, a presentation of facts, inconsistencies, and disturbing questions uncovered in 2 years of persistent and continuous research that will reveal the absurdity of a myth that is too self-delusional not to expose. It will reveal how the hard facts before, during, and after that now infamous day stand in stark opposition to the 'official' story and myth of 9/11 that has been spun and created by certain elements within the U.S. government. And it will consider why the easily revealed facts exposing U.S. government complicity in the mass-murder of thousands of its citizens have been comprehensively ignored by the American public, and wholly uninvestigated by the American media. That this hard truth may be difficult to swallow, in light of the 9/11 myth that has grown so immense around that day, bears no significance upon its efficacy and validity.
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First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
— Arthur Schopenhauer
All of us - individuals and nations - have fictitious myths that we create, believe, and weave our identities into. We have all invented some aspect of ourselves, or the world, that we desperately want to believe, often despite ample evidence pointing to the absurdity and falseness of the created myth. This myth creation is some kind of defensive mechanism, used to evoke a sense of security in an insecure world, utilized to invoke a sense of personal worth in an often brutal and uncaring world. And while the psychology behind this myth making is an interesting and worthy topic for another essay, the principal subject of this paper is the fact that we have dramatically animated and amplified one of these myths. And it has metastasized into an out of control force that is wreaking havoc in our own country, and across the globe.
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, something tragic and terrible took place in New York City, Washington D.C., and rural Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, the actual facts, context, and details of what it was that truly took place that day have been swallowed by the force and momentum of what is now perhaps the largest American myth that exists; i.e. the story that 19 Arab hijackers, under the exclusive direction of Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, and fueled by a religiously driven fundamental hatred and jealousy of American values, blind-sided and plunged an unforeseen dagger into the heart of American democracy, freedom, and innocence.
What follows in this essay is not a promotion, nor a defense, of any kind of 'conspiracy theory' regarding the events of September 11, 2001. It is, instead, a presentation of facts, inconsistencies, and disturbing questions uncovered in 2 years of persistent and continuous research that will reveal the absurdity of a myth that is too self-delusional not to expose. It will reveal how the hard facts before, during, and after that now infamous day stand in stark opposition to the 'official' story and myth of 9/11 that has been spun and created by certain elements within the U.S. government. And it will consider why the easily revealed facts exposing U.S. government complicity in the mass-murder of thousands of its citizens have been comprehensively ignored by the American public, and wholly uninvestigated by the American media. That this hard truth may be difficult to swallow, in light of the 9/11 myth that has grown so immense around that day, bears no significance upon its efficacy and validity.
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