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The State Department site also refers to a book put out by Popular Mechanics, Debunking 9 I 11 Myths: \"Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up To The Facts, as wel as the 9 I 11 Commission Report, texts which the 9 In truth movement has already heavily criticized. And with respect to the 9 I 1 Commission Report, the truth movement is not alone: immersed in controversy from the beginning-the Bush administration attempted to block the formation of a commission and, after it conceded, persistently failed to fund the commission's work or supply it with the requested information-the commission's report was widely viewed as bland and disappointing at best. In the words of a H·arper's Magazine essay by Benjamin DeMott, the report is \"a cheat anq a fraud. It stands as a series of evasive maneuvers that i.nf'antilze the audience, transform candor into iniquity, and conceal realities that demand immediate inspection and confrontation:'15\n\nSome self-proclaimed conspiracy theorists celebrate their outsider status, finding that it establishes the authenticity of their work. Precisely because they have refused to be bought by the system, refused the privileges of the mainstream, they can be trusted. Their views are in no way compromised by the conflicts of interest typical of those working in the interstices of government, big corporations, the military, and the universities.16 To establish their credibility, then, conspiracy theorists often describe the danger, exclusion, and hardship they've undergone for the sake of the truth.\n\nMany conspiracy theorists prize their ability to cut through the government's and mainstream media's conceits and dissimulation. They often manifest their rejection of the mainstream aesthetically. Conspiracyoriented websites tend to be visually complicated and messy, crowded with links, facts, evidence, and information. The sites are confusing, hard to navigate. One is never quite sure where one is. And not surprisingly, they heavily interconnect, mutually citing and reinforcing each other even as they may disagree, furiously, over whether the World Trade Center was taken down by planted explosives made of thermite or remote-controlled drones. Among conspiracy researchers, the complexity of images and multiple fonts, the visual enactment of confusion and connection, afirms their position as outsiders. Their books, their sites, aren't slick, with slick denoting a mindset and aesthetic overattuned to the deceptions of the mainstream.\n\n154\n\nS IX","previous_page":153,"next_page":null}