"I Don't Understand" is NOT Evidence of a Conspiracy

If you listen long enough, you can hear it.

Almost everything that the 9/11 conspiracy theorists say has one common theme: "I (the conspiracy nut) don't understand."

This is phrased in various ways, usually in outraged, nasty, and accusatory tones, or expressions of disbelief. But they all come down to saying they don't understand this or that.

However, "I don't understand" is not proof of a conspiracy theory. "I don't understand" how airplanes fly does not mean they don't fly. "I don't understand" how nuclear bombs explode does not mean they can't work. Scientists cannot figure out how bumble bees fly (they are too big and their wings too small), and yet bumble bees keep right on flying.

"I don't understand" should be a point of humility, a recognition of our own limits. But not for the arrogant conspiracy nuts. To them, if they don't understand, then it cannot be true. Whatever they personally do not understand must be false.

100% of what the 9/11 conspiracy theories have to say is evidence only that they don't understand how things happened or what happened. We are convinced: They don't understand. But the rest of us do understand. We get it. They don't. We're smart. They're dumb. They have persuaded us of this.

Of course, their confessions of not understanding is phrased in more arrogant ways than this. They proclaim "How could X happen?" by which they mean to imply that it could not happen. All this tells us is that they don't know how it happened.

A variation of this is "If X happened, then how could Y happen?" First, if you check, you will amost always find 99% of the time that X is FALSE. Whatever 9/11 conspiracy theorists assert as a fact, if you check it out, is almost always wrong. Second, what their argument boils down to is that the speaker simply does not understand how Y could happen. And yet Y did happen.

The nuts repeately ridicule the facts of 9/11 and otherwise declare that they don't believe the facts about 9/11. But the fact that they don't believe it is simply another way of saying that they don't understand how it could happen. If they understood physics, architecture, building construction, demolition, airplanes, etc., they would believe it. The fact that they don't understand what is going on is why they don't believe it. They are like someone afraid of flying because they don't understand how airplanes fly. If they can't understand, then they don't believe it.

Trained professionals patiently explain what happened on 9/11. But the conspiracy theorists don't want to hear it. Then they repeat that they don't understand, or they don't believe how it could happen.

At the root of the entire conspiracy theory community, with 9/11 and all other topics, is incredible narcissism, and childish selfishness. They believe that unless THEY personally are convinced, then it cannot be true.

Those who want to suggest that something happened on 9/11 different from what we all saw have the burden of proof. Yet, the 9/11 conspiracy movement also depends on the idea that the government has the burden of proof, and that the government must convince them that Al Qaeda attacked the United States on 9/11.

NOTE that I did not say they believe the government must investigate and come to a conclusion. I did not say they believe that the government must convince a normal, reasonable person. They assume that the government most convince THEM. But they don't want to be convinced. They want to believe the opposite. So, of course, this is an impossible standard, because they will never be convinced. If God Himself took them back in time and showed them Al Qaeda planning and carrying out the 9/11 attacks, they would still refuse to believe it.

They EXPECT that the Director of the FBI MUST come over to their house, spread out the evidence on their kitchen table and prove every detail until THEY PERSONALLY are convinced. They DEMAND this.

So, setting up the idea that the government must prove to them what we all know happened is in fact a scam, because they will never allow themselves to be convinced. They reject all common sense, all logic, all reality, in order to cling to their discredited fantasies about some involvement by the US government or officials or the Israeli Mossad.

Think, really think, about the absurdity of the 9/11 nuts. Their entire philosophy is founded on the belief that until THEY are convinced, it can't be true. They believe that THEY are entitled to a personal presentation, proving every detail, and answering every question.

This unbelievable arrogance is echoed by the Snot-Nosed Kid himself, Dylan Avery. Then an 18-year-old, unemployed loser, Dylan Avery created the fraudulent scam video "Loose Change." See "Screw Loose Change" to see all the errors and falsehoods in Avery's fruadulent video. Avery literally created this video at his computer in his bedroom, a few feet from his bed. And yet millions of naive sheeple are willing to follow a know-nothing 18-year-old kid rather than trained professionals with years of experience in their fields.

And yet Avery reveals his arrogance in everything he says. National Geographic has repeatedly proven that the conspiracy theories are absolutely wrong. So how does Avery respond to absolute proof that he is wrong? "I don't have a chain of custody on that," is Avery's response to proof that he has been lying to millions of people.

In other words, Avery imagines himself in the role of a judge sitting on the bench, and proponents of the reality of 9/11 must PROVE to him that the evidence establishes what we all know is true. He imagines that he can ignore the overwhelming evidence that he is wrong, by waving it away. He has aboslutely no evidence of anything. But he conveniently dismisses mountains of evidence against his position. Someone has to come and PERSONALLY prove to him every detail of the evidence, as if he were some self-appointed judge.