Someone Nailed It...
don't know this is, don't care. this is the path to success at this point...
I recommend the honest approach
Trickery is the conspirators' game, and they have it down better than any of us could reasonably expect to compete with. Our strength is our ability for forthrightness, and ability they sorely lack, giving us an advantage on that playing field which I contend should not be squandered. Of course "9/11 was an inside job" isn't going to get you anywhere though, as that is a speculative argument. While it is a position with substantial basis, it is not one backed by indisputable proof, and hence will not convince anyone who prefers to believe otherwise.
Specifically pointing out impossibilities in the official conspiracy theory is how one makes a convincing argument against it, WTC7's period of free fall acceleration being the one I find most effective. The facts which expose the falsehood of the official story of WTC7 can be explained to anyone, while no rational argument to claim otherwise exists. Of course that won't stop the irrational arguments, but those are easy enough to dismiss for what they are, particularly the hostile ones when confronted with a cool head. Exposing people to a fallacy in even just one portion of the official story is the goal, as that plants a seed of doubt which can free them to reconsider the rest from there.
With respect to psychology, note the Asch conformity experiments. Even just one confederate speaking the truth greatly improves the chances that the subject will feel comfortable enough to acknowledge it too. The conspirators' strength is based in the masses they have deceived. However, they can only keep people mislead as long as they are shielded from hearing the truth, and each individual turned to the truth makes turning the next a bit easier. As no one is going to start believing in the official conspiracy theory after coming to terms with the impossibility of it, this is a one-way street in our direction, and all we have to do is continue putting the effort into making our way along it.
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Submitted by Pavlovian Dogcatcher on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 10:04am.
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My favorite part is this
"this is a one-way street in our direction, and all we have to do is continue putting the effort into making our way along it."
YES! That, along with countering the efforts of the army of LIHOP shills who will continue utilizing every possible manipulative trick and sleezy tactic they can imagine to co-op our efforts. It's a 2 front battle against slimy "Family Guy" types and faux researcher Jim Hoffman-esque operatives.
you got it keenan
but we have the upper hand because once people can accept one part of the huge lie they won't hesitate to follow where those revelations obviously lead--the WHOLE huge lie. and people like us are not going to be wiped off the map--er, erased from the pages of history... :)
It would be great to see some polls over time
I haven't seen any good polls regarding people's beliefs about 9/11 since the 2006 Zogby poll. My feeling is that there was an exponential explosion in 9/11 truth awareness around 2005-2006 where our numbers were doubling every few months or so, but then the rate of increase has slowed down markedly and is no longer exponential for the last couple of years. Here in Santa Cruz, our 9/11 truth group showed Loose Change on September 11th 2006 at the Rio Theater to a sell out crowd. Now, however, the group doesn't even meet regularly anymore, and it seems like most of my friends who are open minded and much of that demographic has already seen the 9/11 movies and the number of new people being turned on to it has really declined, in my experience. Almost like a sort of saturation point has been reached in which we can't seem to get much higher than about 25-30% or so of people believing it is an inside job. That's what it seems like to me but I could be wrong. On the other hand, the fact that the number of A&E signatories have doubled in the last year or so is a really good sign. Anybody know of some good polls in the last few years?
low-hanging fruit effect
the easiest people to convince were convinced quickly. but if a good number of them don't go on to become active and help us reach the harder to get at fruit then we're back to linear growth--but hey--it's always growth, believe me. maybe its more like miningthan picking fruit--you may not find much for a while but then you hit a lode and that leads to others...