Maybe step away from posting in several 9/11 forums and focus on just one? You can't be enagaged in multiple conversations simultaneously for several years. That will take its toll.Originally Posted by Gold9472
The "movement," whatever it actually is at this moment, is many things to many people, but it doesn't have an anchor in the power establishment, which makes it difficult to foresee any kind of meaningful action in the near future. I suspect many in the movement are college kids who are fascinated by what they perceive as the Rosetta stone that explains their generalized sense of impotence in the world. For many of these kids, there is an obvious fascination with putting their countercultural impulses into a pop culture form (witness the films of We Are Change, which almost seem more interested in the cool factor of putting hip hop tracks to images of the towers exploding than in anything else). Yes, they are raising a fuss, but what is the lasting impact?
I suspect the conscientious and informed members of 9/11 Truth such as yourself are fewer in number. This may be the source of your exhaustion. You know about 9/11 more than most people, more than most authors on the subject. Your sense of injustice is probably heightened as a result. It's a heavy burden to carry, though of course not as heavy as the illnesses of the first responders.
I often wonder, What form of justice is possible for the 9/11 Truth Movement? Is another investigation possible? Or should we just hope for better funding and care for the first responders? Naturally, we strive for both. But what is most likely to happen here? I'm not sure. The ruling order has too much invested in the byproducts of 9/11 (more money, power, control for them), to want to do anything about the official story.
There's something weird about the current moment that I find difficult to describe. It's as if people are more interested in creating a spectacle -- say, filming protest -- than in protest itself. So many videos of 9/11 protests hit the web, but what is the real effect of these protests? Do we have the numbers to make a real change? I don't know. I sometimes wonder if many of us are retreating into images, because real action presents the possibility of imprisonment, physical harm, protracted disappointment, or death.
You do a lot for this movement, Jon. Don't burn yourself out because you can't do everything. No one can. Sometimes bullshit not only happens, but it keeps happening for a long time and good people get snowed under by it.
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