Never get frustrated!
Recently, I got in an online discussion on nine eleven again. Not only do these discussions virtually never result in one person convincing the other, but they also take way too much time. Often the other person refuses to even consider the remote possibility that not everything that (s)he’s been told in the press, on tv, on the radio, regarding the attacks is gospel. It’s a great exercise of patience. More important, it’s the mainstream press, not random people you meet, that lives in a parallel universe and refuses to cover this. That gets on your nerves a lot more.
On the other hand, maybe the western part of the world really needs this myth. Maybe our societies would collapse without the masses having been brainwashed. And maybe the politicians have no other way to thrive than to act as fearmongerers, making people suspicious of one another, of other ethnic or religious groups.
