An Exhausted Culture, Founded on Psychological Manipulation

This is a fairly long essay by Arthur Silber, and its significance won't be obvious as you start reading it:

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2013/09/dying-for-control-ii-exhausted-culture.html

In spite of that, you should read it if you have time.

Combined with John Cobb's essay "Truth, 'Faith', and 9/11" (http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/09/truth-faith-and-911.html), it should give you a good understanding why otherwise intelligent people have allowed themselves to be fooled by the government's 9/11 conspiracy theory. Our "nationalist faith" and our lifelong obedience training override our powers of observation and rational thinking.

And if you're interested, here's a link to more info about the Asch experiment mentioned in Silber's essay:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

By the way, this phenomenon of conformity and obedience is chillingly similar to what happened to the German people as the Nazis led them down the road to destruction.

Obama ad-Dajjal imitates Hitler in all things. The longer he is President, the more America will imitate Nazi Germany in all things.