Conspiracy

In a world where current events are blown wildly out of proportion on a daily basis there must be a large sect of society that chooses to question that constant flow of information and derives it for what it truly is. A particularly large organization dedicated to questioning the popular media is Zeitgeist. Not only does the Zeitgeist movement choose not to subscribe to common conceptions created by our media, but they are vehemently in opposition. The largest, most significant stance that they were ever took was the radical theory that 9/11 was an inside job. Responses about such a claim include, "Zeitgeist does have a message that's not necessarily invalid, but it's lost underneath the unequivocal dishonesty." The film is seemingly able to offer facts a plenty, many of which seem true beyond a shadow of a doubt. Upon seeing the film for the first time as a sophomore in high school I hardly had the ability to question such a powerful entity. The ideas suggested by the film were to large and lofty to be ignored and for a short period of time I was drawn to the speculation with strong curiosity. While I was ultimately able to discern between what was actually true and what was simply conspiracy. While the power of releasing such a film is apparent simply in the action of doing so little consideration is given to the resounding effect such knowledge can have on a young moldable mind. I was not so easily swayed that viewing the Zeitgeist told turned my views on the events that took place on 9/11 a portion of my mind is still susceptible to the idea that it may have been an inside job and as this was such a tragic, important event in our country's history I feel it's almost unfair of me to dishonor those lives by speculating about those who put in so much effort to first, keep our country safe, and then those who were able to respond to those tragic events and lighten the effects. I just wish I had more faith in those reporting me the news to distinguish between their lies and the lies of those who would like to bring down the system entirely.