Barlow posted:

I suspect people that latch onto the conspiracy theories do so exactly because they feel they can "know" they are true. If you watch a video of 9/11 and feel that it must be a remote control plane, then you pride yourself on how smart you are. If you watch "Loose Change" you can think about all those dumb idiots that didn't realize that it was really a missile that hit the Pentagon. If you believe it was a thermite charge that took down WTC 7 you can feel contented in your sound knowledge of engineering versus the those other sheeple.

Conspiracy theories of the kind you're talking about aren't verifiable in the same way and don't let you feel superior. You can suspect Bush allowed 9/11 to happen but you can't really feel content about how much smarter you are then anyone else.

The JFK assassination works the same way. Oswald after all had contact with a ton of different groups including the CIA and KGB, yet theories rarely revolve around his motives. Instead most JFK assassination theories are about how smart the person explaining the theory is for "knowing" that Oswald could never have made those shots.