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| 9/11: Comments on Bidinotto's "It's a Conspiracy" Posted by Monart Pon on 11/19, 1:55pm | ||
| Robert Bidinotto's article, “It’s a Conspiracy”, is now on the web. (An earlier version, preceding the TNI print version, was posted on his blog, where I first wrote a response. The TNI link is below.) I sent the following comments to Bidinotto and the editors and publishers of TNI, _____________ To the Editors and Publisher: Comments on Bidinotto’s “It’s a Conspiracy” An article like Bidinotto’s “It’s a Conspiracy”, in an objectivist magazine, can only be taken seriously if it were intended as a parody — a parody of an article written with unchecked premises and unexamined prejudices, aiming to dismiss rather than dispute, to intimidate rather than inform, to ridicule rather than reason. The article rests its whole case on a key term that it never defines explicitly. Yet the meaning implicit in the article is: “A conspiracy theory is a theory that challenges the official, mainstream, conventional, orthodox version”, with the assumption that all alternate theories are false. By this definition, objectivism’s challenge of the mainstream is a “conspiracy theory”, and so is Bidinotto’s own “Eco-not”. [...] Did the collapse of WTC1, WTC2, and WTC7 look counter-intuitive, unlike all falling structures you may have seen in your life, except in controlled demolitions? Was it multiple coincidences and massive incompetence that made the American air defense break down, incredibly, only on that morning? [...] "It's a Conspiracy" reminds me of the many anti-Rand articles, whose authors read very little of Rand, but who try not to refute her ideas, but to misrepresent, smear, and ridicule them so as to discourage people from reading her works for themselves. That the "...Conspiracy" article was written by an objectivist intellectual and published in an objectivist magazine is either a huge unfunny joke, or is a sign of incipient corruption that truth-seekers should expose and condemn before it spreads. The truth, or lies, of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory are vitally important -- important because wars are being fought with its justification, lives and wealth lost, and liberty infringed because of it. ------ The complete article is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Owl_objectivists/message/218 | ||
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