The first thing I would like to address is the fact that so many people focus on trying to demonstrate the invalidity of the movies.
True or not?
Whether or not every statement in these movies or any movie of the kind is true doesn't change the fact that the world as it is now is really screwed. Be it because of the monetary system, cultural superstitions, governments incompetency or many any other causes, the problems are not going to be solved by pointing the finger at each other only.
The point is not to agree with the movies or discredit them. Many people concentrate all their efforts in trying to demonstrate the invalidity of the movie and they are happy when they show that there's a statement that is false or taken out of its original context to make it fit the purpose of the movie. Many of them use variations of the following excuse to avoid going through the rest of the material presented:
"This and that statement are false, so everything else is false, even the things that the authors of the movie might say in the future. Oh, and everything associated with it is also a conspiracy theory, and so on ...."And I cannot blame them since I myself have use a similar excuse when I find something that doesn't make sense at all because there's nothing to back up it's validity. So in that sense I understand them but, the general idea of the movies doesn't require you to search for a lot of evidence since you have it all in front of your eyes. Some examples:
Similarities among religions. It is not hard to realize that many religions have common origins since obviously we (people) have common origins. So it is reasonable to expect some similarities. Denying that is a fruitless endeavor, a much more productive approach would be to try to understand why are there similarities instead ignoring them.
Nevertheless, arguing about religion is itself useless since religion, although it was a necessary step in our evolution as a species sounds now more like a bunch of crazy superstitions and senseless rules, not based in any evidence, all that mixed with a lot of moral principles supposedly given to us by some supernatural entity since we're not intelligent enough to come up with them since they're very very complex, e. g., "Don't kill me and I won't kill you", that's pretty hard to come up with, Isn't it?
Corrupted behavior. Common sense, there's people who would do almost anything for money or as a revenge, so it is very possible that the 911 attacks were planned by any of the two sides. Both sides had what I would say are "good reasons" to justify those acts, only the US couldn't admit its "reasons" to the American people.
Whether or not we'll ever know the whole truth behind those attacks, it won't change that many people lost their trust in their government. Which is good since most people in governments of the different nations are even more stupid than the average person, why should we trust them more that we trust ourselves?
Just like religions, governments are only one more treatment for the symptoms of the sickness, they won't be able to reach the root of it.
Corrupted behavior (Take 2). This is my favorite and I want to make this separate points:
- Take the whole world as a single system. This system produces a thing called "Money". The systems lends itself this money, which is a bit stupid. How in the hell can you be indebted with yourself?
- In the history of money it is well known that there has been times when governments print money (to fund a war for example) that is not backed up by anything. The only thing that could stop a government from printing money was the lack of the resources to print it. Money can be printed by these people at any time, who's going to stop them anyway? They're the "government".
- Now that most of the financial operations are being done electronically, the limit to how much money governments or other institutions (e. g., banks) can create is the amount of memory available on their servers.
So, there's no need go on very complex arguments to try to explain why the movies are right or wrong, we're not blind, we're able to see how bad things are with respect to societies.
But that's not even the tip of the things that happen in our universe. Many species have come and gone during the last four billion years approximately, we're just one more species, or maybe not. Something that makes us special with respect to the other species is that, we seem to be the first that can actively change its environment significantly. Unfortunately we've been too lazy when it comes to foreseeing the consequences of our actions. We're still a very short-term minded species. Hopefully we'll be able to change that before it's too late, or maybe natural selection will help us with that.
For the moment that's it. I hope to have the time to continue this series soon.
