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Cognitive dissonance and 9/11 truth
The
best recent example of society-wide cognitive dissonance that has placed
America on the slippery slope of global conflagration, economic
collapse, “Big Brother” surveillance states, endless foreign wars and
domestic martial law is what has been happening ever since millions of
observant, open-minded patriots saw, and then courageously said
something about, what really happened on 9/11/01.
What they saw contradicted what the 24/7 corporate media
reportage that was coming out of the Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld/Rove White
House and the NeoCons of the Project for the new American Century
(google PNAC and 911). The disinformation was obediently echoed – and
enforced – by the NSA, the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon and by members of
both political parties who couldn’t admit that they were destined to be
part of a major conspiracy that would lead to the evisceration of the
Constitution and the deaths of and disruptions to millions of innocent,
unarmed men, women and children in the Middle East.
Believe your eyes and not the lies
People
who watched the events of 9/11/01 on live television or were actually
present in Manhattan saw fireballs erupt near the top of both 110 story
twin towers and then burn out rapidly. Most eyewitnesses didn’t see the
first plane hit a tower until a day or two later when accidental
coverage by some French videographers was shown on US television.
President Bush had lied when he said that he had seen the first plane
hitting the tower because there was no live TV coverage of that
incident.
Many
credible eyewitnesses (especially the scores of NYFD firefighters) saw
and heard multiple explosions in multiple sites in both towers just
before they exploded and were reduced to pyroclastic clouds of fine
dust. There is testimonial and video evidence of widespread destruction
in the bottom floors of the Twin Towers before the buildings were
imploded. See: http://911blogger.com/news/2010-10-06/new-video-911-firefighters-reveal-huge-explosions-towers-collapsed
Sturdy,
over-engineered steel girders up to 4 inches thick were nicely
sectioned by cutter charges into easily transportable lengths before
they hit the ground. Some of those multi-ton steel beam sections had
been thrown, at high speed, horizontally, embedding themselves into
adjacent buildings up to 600 feet away. Mayor Rudy Giuliani illegally
tampered with the crime scene when he ordered the sectioned beams to be
hastily shipped overseas as scrap metal to be melted down before they
could be examined in the US.
According
to the testimony of hundreds of interviewees, some of the explosions
originated in the basements of the towers in the minutes before the
collapses and after the fireballs had burned out at the top of the
towers. One eyewitness who worked in World Trade Center # 7 (later to be
demolished by obvious controlled demolition at 5:20 pm – on the direct
order of WTC complex owner Larry Silverstein) testified that there were
explosions in # 7 before any planes hit the other two towers. That man
has since died under suspicious circumstances after giving his dramatic
and dissonance-inducing testimony on live TV.
Many
physicists, engineers, chemists, architects, jet pilots, demolition
experts, scientists, intelligence agents and others (those not co-opted
or bribed by special interests) have been exhaustively evaluating the
video footage of the collapses of the three towers. They have concluded
that the official conspiracy theories were patently false.
Any
honest viewer of even a few of the thousands of YouTube videos on the
subject of 9/11 will agree with those expert observers. The scientists
among them have proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that all three
towers came down at accelerating free-fall speed, meaning that there was
nothing structurally intact below the top of the collapsing buildings.
Pulverized concrete and suddenly transected steel columns offered no
resistance to the falling buildings, a reality that totally destroys the
absurd pancake theory that the White House and uninformed others want
gullible people to believe.
The
twin towers had suddenly disintegrated an hour or so after the fires had
extinguished themselves and only black, oxygen-starved smoke from low
temperature office fires was coming from the buildings. No plane hit #7
and only a few insignificant, easily controllable office fires (which
did not occur because of falling debris, since no windows had been
broken on the involved floors) were present in that over-engineered (for
sturdiness and safety) high security building. Curiously, WTC 7
contained many offices of powerful entities like the CIA, Mayor
Giuliani’s emergency command center and the SEC’s (Security and Exchange
Commission) files on Enron and other corrupt corporations that were
heading to litigation.
Within
hours of the twin towers being explosively pulverized into fine dust,
the corporate media was already reporting that culprits had suddenly
been identified, accused, convicted and condemned, all without a jury
trial. Suddenly there were pictures on every news report of 19 young
Saudi Arabian men and the terminally-ill, recent American ally Osama bin
Laden (who had already been nicely demonized in the American media).
The major media conveniently failed to report later that at least six of
these alleged suicide bombers had been found, alive and well, in the
Middle East. Go figure.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/duty-to-warn-911-and-cognitive-dissonance/5347923
Duty to Warn: 9/11 and Cognitive Dissonance
There
is an epidemic of a psychological phenomenon called cognitive
dissonance in the world today. Everybody is susceptible to the reality
of cognitive dissonance in one degree or another, but, to many
observers, it seems to be especially prevalent in average Americans
today.
Cognitive
dissonance refers to the psychological or emotional discomfort felt
when one is confronted with new information or a new reality that
contradicts one’s deeply held beliefs or belief systems. It seems
especially common among people who have been victimized by TV
commercials and other methods of brain-washing and propaganda. It is
also true of cult membership that is led by a charismatic, deceptive
leader or membership in some other authoritarian system, including
punitive parenting and religious or political indoctrination.
When
there is a confrontation of conflicting and mutually exclusive beliefs,
intelligent, open-minded and thoughtful people are usually willing to
change their minds by re-evaluating their prior stances, looking
carefully and honestly at the new evidence, reassessing the credibility
of both positions and then making a decision to adopt or reject the new
information, depending on the evidence before them.
Close-minded,
distracted, uninformed, ignorant, too-busy, addicted or intensely
conservative people may not, for a variety of reasons, have the time,
inclination, intelligence or political will to look at new evidence that
might run contrary to their ingrained beliefs. Therefore they may
unconsciously or reflexively reject the new information, even if the
evidence is overwhelmingly and provably true.
Two
good examples of avoidance of unwelcome truths (and the fear of
cognitive dissonance) about atrocities committed during US wars of
aggression are the corporate media’s total blackballing of these taboo
subjects: veterans of the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan/Iraq wars
coming home to testify about the war crimes they committed overseas.
(See http://www.wintersoldier.com/; http://links.org.au/node/3343; and http://www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier)
Of
course the threat of being ostracized or accused of being
insufficiently patriotic, traitorous or risking one’s job for telling
the truth are also huge factors in covering up the Crime of the Century.
The hidden message is “what is happening to Julian Assange, Bradley
Manning and Edward Snowden and what happened to JFK, RFK, MLK and Paul
Wellstone might happen to you!” As Daniel Ellsberg, the famous
whistle-blowing Pentagon Papers “conspiracy theorist” that leaked the
painful truths about the atrocity-producing Vietnam War, said: “I have
had the owners of highly-regarded media companies confide in me
privately that they don’t believe the government’s version of 9/11 but
are scared of discussing it publicly because they don’t want to be
tarred-and-feathered for discussing “conspiracy theories”. (See http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25286)
People
who freeze, faint, flee or fight when they are confronted with
information that contradicts what they thought they knew are often
influenced by spokespersons for authoritarian entities that have hidden
agendas involving survival, greed and power. Usually such
thought-leaders are financed by wealthy elites of the ruling class that
have easy access to powerful propaganda machinery. One only has to look
at America’s various media empires – owned and operated by excessively
wealthy, politically conservative corporations – whose real interests
are well hidden.
Holding
conflicting ideas simultaneously is difficult or impossible for most
people (except for the bribed, the ignorant, the distracted, the
semiconscious, the drugged or those with an “I don’t give a damn”
attitude). So the natural instinct for most humans is to make a judgment
in favor of the old, deeply embedded idea. The tendency to be
dismissive of the new information, even to the point of angrily labeling
the new idea a “conspiracy theory” and then ridiculing the “conspiracy
theorists” who have challenged them with unwelcome facts.
Not
to do so may result in having to admit ones errors, which, to many
people (especially Western men), can be psychologically intolerable.
Another good example of cognitive dissonance and denial are certain
religious fundamentalists who, while professing that the bible is
inerrant, have to be in denial of the fact that there are numerous
internal contradictions and inconsistencies between the Old Testament’s
ethical teachings that often justifies homicidal violence and the
nonviolent ethics of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount that forbids
homicidal violence.
Cognitive dissonance and 9/11 truth
The
best recent example of society-wide cognitive dissonance that has placed
America on the slippery slope of global conflagration, economic
collapse, “Big Brother” surveillance states, endless foreign wars and
domestic martial law is what has been happening ever since millions of
observant, open-minded patriots saw, and then courageously said
something about, what really happened on 9/11/01.
What they saw contradicted what the 24/7 corporate media
reportage that was coming out of the Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld/Rove White
House and the NeoCons of the Project for the new American Century
(google PNAC and 911). The disinformation was obediently echoed – and
enforced – by the NSA, the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon and by members of
both political parties who couldn’t admit that they were destined to be
part of a major conspiracy that would lead to the evisceration of the
Constitution and the deaths of and disruptions to millions of innocent,
unarmed men, women and children in the Middle East.
Believe your eyes and not the lies
People
who watched the events of 9/11/01 on live television or were actually
present in Manhattan saw fireballs erupt near the top of both 110 story
twin towers and then burn out rapidly. Most eyewitnesses didn’t see the
first plane hit a tower until a day or two later when accidental
coverage by some French videographers was shown on US television.
President Bush had lied when he said that he had seen the first plane
hitting the tower because there was no live TV coverage of that
incident.
Many
credible eyewitnesses (especially the scores of NYFD firefighters) saw
and heard multiple explosions in multiple sites in both towers just
before they exploded and were reduced to pyroclastic clouds of fine
dust. There is testimonial and video evidence of widespread destruction
in the bottom floors of the Twin Towers before the buildings were
imploded. See: http://911blogger.com/news/2010-10-06/new-video-911-firefighters-reveal-huge-explosions-towers-collapsed
Sturdy,
over-engineered steel girders up to 4 inches thick were nicely
sectioned by cutter charges into easily transportable lengths before
they hit the ground. Some of those multi-ton steel beam sections had
been thrown, at high speed, horizontally, embedding themselves into
adjacent buildings up to 600 feet away. Mayor Rudy Giuliani illegally
tampered with the crime scene when he ordered the sectioned beams to be
hastily shipped overseas as scrap metal to be melted down before they
could be examined in the US.
According
to the testimony of hundreds of interviewees, some of the explosions
originated in the basements of the towers in the minutes before the
collapses and after the fireballs had burned out at the top of the
towers. One eyewitness who worked in World Trade Center # 7 (later to be
demolished by obvious controlled demolition at 5:20 pm – on the direct
order of WTC complex owner Larry Silverstein) testified that there were
explosions in # 7 before any planes hit the other two towers. That man
has since died under suspicious circumstances after giving his dramatic
and dissonance-inducing testimony on live TV.
Many
physicists, engineers, chemists, architects, jet pilots, demolition
experts, scientists, intelligence agents and others (those not co-opted
or bribed by special interests) have been exhaustively evaluating the
video footage of the collapses of the three towers. They have concluded
that the official conspiracy theories were patently false.
Any
honest viewer of even a few of the thousands of YouTube videos on the
subject of 9/11 will agree with those expert observers. The scientists
among them have proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that all three
towers came down at accelerating free-fall speed, meaning that there was
nothing structurally intact below the top of the collapsing buildings.
Pulverized concrete and suddenly transected steel columns offered no
resistance to the falling buildings, a reality that totally destroys the
absurd pancake theory that the White House and uninformed others want
gullible people to believe.
The
twin towers had suddenly disintegrated an hour or so after the fires had
extinguished themselves and only black, oxygen-starved smoke from low
temperature office fires was coming from the buildings. No plane hit #7
and only a few insignificant, easily controllable office fires (which
did not occur because of falling debris, since no windows had been
broken on the involved floors) were present in that over-engineered (for
sturdiness and safety) high security building. Curiously, WTC 7
contained many offices of powerful entities like the CIA, Mayor
Giuliani’s emergency command center and the SEC’s (Security and Exchange
Commission) files on Enron and other corrupt corporations that were
heading to litigation.
Within
hours of the twin towers being explosively pulverized into fine dust,
the corporate media was already reporting that culprits had suddenly
been identified, accused, convicted and condemned, all without a jury
trial. Suddenly there were pictures on every news report of 19 young
Saudi Arabian men and the terminally-ill, recent American ally Osama bin
Laden (who had already been nicely demonized in the American media).
The major media conveniently failed to report later that at least six of
these alleged suicide bombers had been found, alive and well, in the
Middle East. Go figure.
The “lone assassin” and false flag operations fool most of the people most of the time
It is
important to de-mystify the favored “blame it on a deranged lone
shooter instead of guilty entities that profit from the killing”
explanation (and therefore non-conspiratorial] for assassinations that
governments love to trot out when their official pat answers about how
the latest progressive leader or journalist or whistleblower had been
“offed”.
Recall
the “lone assassins” Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray and Sirhan
Sirhan who had been fingered as ending the lives and missions of
antifascist peace and justice advocates like JFK, MLK and RFK.
There
is abundant evidence, always silenced by a total media blackout, that
legitimately questions the validity of the official theories of, for
example, who killed JFK, MLK and RFK, or Paul Wellstone, for that
matter. (See Dr. James Fetzer’s www.assassinationscience.com and http://911caper.com/2011/03/12/paul-wellstone-they-killed-him-a-15-part-documentary/ for much more on these and other critically important issues that can cause cognitive dissonance.)
Devious
opinion leaders and disinformation agents like to proclaim simplistic,
superficially plausible explanations for complex events, especially when
corporate or state interests are at stake. These entities hire cunning
communications experts that are geniuses at “explaining/propagandizing”
everything with pithy slogans and 20-second sound bites that are
articulated by “embedded” journalists and their “news reports” (that are
actually propaganda pieces) that most of us patriotic (and very
short-attention-span) Americans want
to believe. Even incredibly complex situations like American invasions
of or attacks against sovereign nations are often only given simplistic
explanations whose opposing points of view are rarely given adequate
media exposure.
False
flag operations are clever, pre-planned propaganda events that
governments orchestrate in order for it to justify going to war.
In
addition to the obvious false flag operation of 9/11, the Berlin
Reichstag Fire, Operation Northwoods and the Gulf of Tonkin episodes
(google them) come readily to mind. False flag ops, breathlessly
proclaimed and endlessly referred to (and therefore ultimately accepted
as truth by most folks), fool many supposedly smart Senators and
Representatives, as well as presidents. Of course, one must also wonder
how many or our so-called leaders in the fall of 2001 were in on the
deception or have since been part of the cover-up (and therefore an
accomplice of the crime).
Many
citizens simply want to be led by a charismatic leader or an attractive
Prime Minister or President, but what happens if these citizens are
incapable of using what may be seriously atrophied critical thinking
skills? Do they wind up believing what they have been told over and over
again by the ruling elites who have control of the White House, the
Congress, the Supreme Court and fraudulent investigative committees like
the 9/11 Truth [sic] Commission? Indeed that is the case. And what
guarantees the success of the elite ruling class’s agenda is their
control over what gets published or discussed in the media.
Lone
assassin theories and false flag operations are absurdly easy to
propagate by endlessly repeating the sound bites and perpetually
re-stating lies as truth. 19 brown-skinned, bearded Arabs and a dying,
despised Osama bin Laden were easy patsies, just like the patsies
Oswald, Ray, Sirhan and the pilots of Wellstone’s fatal plane. (See the
documentary “Wellstone: They Killed Him” at http://www.snowshoefilms.com/wellstone.html
and the black-balled [in the US] book exonerating James Earl Ray,
titled “An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King”. Also
learn about the 1999 jury trial convicting Lloyd Jowers and “other
unnamed co-conspirators” for MLK’s murder and listen to King family
attorney William Pepper on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWS1KPCmOrI (Preview) and at http://www.williampepper.com/).
It
is far too easy for the propagandists to convince us busy, distracted,
over-entertained Americans to believe their lies, whether repeated by
talking heads on Fox News, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, or
regurgitated by normal people in the local bars, street corners or
pulpits. And it’s hard to speak up when one is likely to be shouted down
by a crowd of dis-informed folks whose opinions have been shaped by
cunning propagandists who have had control of the megaphone.
Lessons from Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment
The
master propagandist, now unconsciously emulated was Joseph Goebbels,
Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment.
Goebbels
had authoritarian control over all of Nazi Germany’s print media, radio
broadcasts and the movie industry. If it was broadcast on German radio
in the 1930s, it was information that was right-wing, state-sanctioned
and pro-Nazi. Dissension was verboten, and no alternative news reporting
was allowed. Liberal printing presses were smashed and their editors
and journalists were often thrown in prison or concentration camps.
As
an example of the many official (and legal) repressive actions,
Goebbels was able to suppress the showing of the classic antiwar movie
“All Quiet on the Western Front” by, initially, having his obedient
brown-shirted, thuggish, traumatized ex-combat vets (from World War I)
in the right-wing SA set off stink bombs and released mice in the
theaters.
Goebbels
subsequently banned the showing of that movie, which, by the way, is
likewise frowned upon as being too truthful about the savagery of war by
all militarized nations, including our own. Goebbels’ techniques of
brain-washing eventually were supplemented by harsh legislation that was
enforced by the Gestapo and punished by the People’s Courts (often
resulting in the death penalty). Listening to radio broadcasts from the
BBC was a capital crime in Nazi Germany.
The three “wise” monkeys
As
children we all saw the pictures of the “three wise monkeys” that we
were told were supposedly telling us to “See no evil, hear no evil,
speak no evil”. I thought about that “lesson” a lot as I grew up. There
was something profoundly true about the image of the monkeys holding
their hands over eyes, ears and mouths, but there was something subtly
wrong with the sentiment that was giving children a moral message to
stay away from evil.
I
now think that the three monkeys were actually conveying to us
something entirely different. They could as easily have been conveying
this much more sobering message, one of obedience to authority: “Avoid
seeing, listening or speaking painful truths”; be good little patriots
and mindlessly say the pledge of allegiance to the flag every day.
The
Sicilian Mafia, who demanded unconditional obedience to authority,
probably saw the image and message that way. That brutal organization
actually still uses the symbol of the monkeys as emblematic of their
code of conduct and “honor”, which is a code of secrecy similar to the
oath of allegiance that many powerful institutions abide by, including
such groups as the National Security Agency, the Pentagon, the CIA, the
FBI, local law enforcement agencies, multinational corporations and many
political groups.
The
Mafia – as is true of most of the other groups mentioned above – never
admits their criminality, immorality or unconstitutional behaviors. The
reason that they promote falsehoods or engage in other illegal
activities does not involve cognitive dissonance. Rather, they remain
silent (pleading the 5th Amendment if they ever get
subpoenaed) because they are threatened, are afraid for their lives or
livelihood or have been paid off. The rule in many such authoritarian
groups is “if you rat on us – you die”. Such “traitors” are
cold-shouldered, blackballed, imprisoned or disappeared, which was or
will be the fate of all those whistleblowers mentioned above, but their
motivation is not the fear of psychological discomfort.
Trying to save the soul of our errant nation by speaking truth to power
Most
of the whistleblowers that I know are altruistic patriots who have seen
the dark underbelly of their own nations and choose to overcome their
cognitive dissonance and courageously speak the painful truth, risking
the chance that they will be unfairly labeled “conspiracy theorists” by
those that don’t know any better. They are trying to save the souls of
their errant, but beloved nations.
The
painful truth of the matter is this: contrary to the drumbeat we have
heard over and over again about 9/11 for the last 12 years, the
Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld/Rove White House Conspiracy Theory about 9/11 is
provably false and the proof has been available since 2001. There has
been so much evidence disproving it that it is almost laughable that
anybody who looks at the evidence and still believes the lies could
still defend their beliefs. 9/11 is still regarded as a
taboo subject in America and one of the reasons for average citizens
remaining ignorant about it is cognitive dissonance, the reluctance to
admit to having been fooled by the propaganda machine. The ability to
accept the humiliation of being conned into believing a falsehood is not
a common trait among Americans.
Many
American may not care enough and perhaps are too distracted, too busy
or too addicted (to brain-altering drugs, entertainment, video gaming,
food, sports, religion, etc) to take the time to do their own research
and to double-check the veracity of what has been proven over and over
again about the WTC towers: they were demolished by unknown insiders who
pre-planted the explosives and not by foreigners. That is both
important and tragic, for 9/11 is the Crime and Cover-up of the Century.
It is the most serious issue of our day, the cause of massive death,
destruction and wars and one that is deciding the increasingly dismal
future that may not be able to sustain a healthy living environment for
those who are following us.
To
continue to ignore the truths uncovered by the multitudes of
thoughtful, highly intelligent and courageous prophetic voices
world-wide and to continue to believe the absurd official theories when
there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary is to helplessly go along
with the evil agenda of shadowy, exploitative, psychopathic powers that
are not your friends; nor are they the friends of your children, your
nation or the earth. To continue to be oblivius about the Crime and
Cover-up of the Century will be putting our children and their planet in
peril.
For more information, please start your research here:
(check
out these very informative websites that reveal the truth about 9/11,
including Dr James Fetzer’s Scholars for 9/11 Truth at http://911scholars.org/, Richard Gage’s Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth at: http://www.ae911truth.org/ or Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice at www.http://stj911.org/.
Dr. Kohls
is a retired physician who practiced holistic mental health care for
the last decade of his career. He has been involved in peace and justice
issues for decades and continues to speak out against totalitarianism,
fascism, corporatism, militarism, racism and other anti-democratic
movements. He is also a member of Medical Professionals for 9/11Truth
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