Nuts, Eh?

Why is it for some that conspiracy isn't even a word? They have to attach "nut," "crazy," "loon," or "psycho" to it like it's all one word? You won't find "conspiracy" in the dictionary, but if you're looking for that kind of term, check under "conspiracy nut."

I was browsing rottentomatoes.com for some movie reviews and couldn't help but notice a forum headline that read somewhere along the lines of, "A question for conspiracy nuts out there." That's the way to grab someone's attention, isn't it? If someone just up and calls me a "conspiracy nut," I'm sure bound to have a meaningful and pleasant conversation with them, aren't I? The odd part is, I just attempted to look up the definition of conspiracy online and there's nothing. I couldn't find one single definition. Maybe that's a conspiracy in and of itself. Okay, I'm just kidding.

The majority of comments I read on this forum, from both sides of the spectrum it appeared, were in agreement that there were questions that have not been answered in regard to 9/11 and even though some conspiracies are a little out there, not all of them are. Outside of that, there were many different thoughts and insults being thrown around. Some claim that "experts" have looked and studied over 9/11 time and time again and have dismissed any and all conspiracies. Some don't buy the conspiracies they've read about, such as Bush and Karl Rove controlling planes via remote control and crashing them into the buildings. Nah, I'm not buying that one, especially since Bush was reading to kids at that point in time. I don't know what Rove was doing, but I highly doubt it was playing with a remote control airplane and crashing it into the World Trade Center. One person brought up a pretty good point, I thought and stated that we let the government get away with very simple-minded, black-and-white reasoning, because they're kind of the mom and dad of the country. When we were kids, what reasoning were we given not to eat a cookie or watch a certain movie or put stand on the roof with an umbrella in our hand during a thunderstorm? "Because I said so!" That was the reasoning. Looking back on those responses makes me shake my head, thinking to myself, how in the world did I fall for that weak answer? The government seems to sugar-coat things a bit more than "Because I said so," but when the day is over and we look back to all they've said and done, that's basically what they're telling us. After 9/11, we were a country desperate for answers, for a leader to step up, for a mother and father to take care of us. Within a matter of no time it seemed, we knew who the leader of the operation was, one Osama Bin Laden, and were ready to strike back against Afghanistan. Whether it was good reasoning or not, we didn't care. Our leader(s) said it was the case, so let's play follow the leader. The government would never lie to us, right? Uh-huh.

I think it's extremely ignorant of us to attach insulting words to a person or group of people. I've heard the word punk attached to teenager to form "teenage punk." I've heard pervert attached to my own gender to form "male pervert." Then there's "dumb jock" and "slutty cheerleader" and the one I just mentioned to start this blog, "conspiracy nut." These are ignorant stereotypes from which some people base their opinions. While most jocks may not be dumb, only one will have to fit into this stereotype for some to say, "See, I told you so." Only one cheerleader who's rumored to have slept with multiple athletes will get the person to say, "See? I told you man. All cheerleaders are like that." Only one wild conspiracy will get this person to say, "What a conspiracy whacko! They're all like that!"

While some conspiracies are too fiction to be real, the truly dangerous conspiracies we've bumped into over the years have been constructed by our very own government, that mama and papa bear who nurture us, comfort us, and give us the simplest answers to everything. Even though it can be seen that two bullets coming from different directions shot and killed John F. Kennedy, only one person is said to have killed him and even he may not have had anything to do with it. Even though no airplane hit Tower 7 on 9/11, yet it exploded and came down just like the other towers did on 9/11, we're still supposed to believe that the planes that crashed into the buildings brought them all down, including the one they didn't hit. Some conspiracy theorists may be a little nuts, but the nuttiest are not even considered to be conspiracy theorists and we take their wild conspiracies for granted as fact without even acknowledging that they are conspiracy theories.