OK, we just saw the "documentary" "Zeitgeist" we'd been hearing about, in a hostel in... an undisclosed location. The religion part made a fair amount of sense, but then part 2 went straight into 9/11 conspiracy theories, which in our mind are precisely the same as religion... YOU ARE ASKING US TO BELIEVE YOUR CONSPIRACY IF WE CANNOT PROVIDE PROOF THAT IT DID NOT HAPPEN, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF THAT IT DID.
We are fully ready to believe that conspiracies exist, especially within the current government, but these must be taken hand-in-hand with something else that should never be underestimated... GOVERNMENT INCOMPETENCE. Given a choice, we will generally run with the latter.
The 3rd installment, on the National Bank/ Federal Reserve/ Wealthy Elite Conspiracy, we were also fully prepared to believe, but it's hard to take the words of a raving lunatic and a narrator who doesn't seem capable of proper noun-verb agreement seriously. And William Jennings had a last name... Bryan. I thought he was the last one to argue for a gold standard, and even he was willing to include silver.
And finally, the "talk-u-mentary" links all the US wars together as premediated manipulated acts of aggression with the help of, uh, premediated manipulated choices of words and facts. It states that World War I began "shortly after" the sinking of the Lusitania, citing this as the sole cause of the war, despite the fact that it happened ABOUT 2 YEARS BEFORE war was declared. There were a few other factors that occured after, such as the Zimmerman Telegram (look it up), not to mention the resumption of U-boat activity, that played a larger role.
As for WWII, yes, the US should realize that it had pushed Japan into a corner, but it is rather convenient to fall back on "international law" on this one, and ignore what was actually going on. And if you think the governmant would be jaded enough to allow thousands of its citizens to die purely to instigate war and profits, you'd be... well, back to square one. Click below for further information.
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