#Lest You Did Not Know: Why Do Good People Become Silent—or Worse—About 9/11? (FULL WORK)

“All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically” Steven Weinberg.

Why Do Good People Become Silent—or Worse—About 9/11?

• Part 1: Preface and Introduction Our human tendencies toward denial in order to avoid the discomfort of cognitive dissonance.
• Part 2: Diffusion of Innovations How new ideas become accepted in societies.
• Part 3: Obeying and Believing Authority The authority experiments of Stanley Milgram, Jane Elliott, and Philip Zimbardo.
• Part 4: Doublethink The concept “doublethink,” developed by George Orwell.
• Part 5: Denial and Cognitive Dissonance The defensive mechanisms of denial and cognitive dissonance.
• Part 6: Conformity and the Spiral of Silence The Solomon Asch experiments on conformity and Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann’s “spiral of silence” theory.
• Part 7: Groupthink An especially maladaptive form of conformity called “groupthink.”
• Part 8: Brain Research — Structure and Beliefs How beliefs — and our tendency to hold onto beliefs — are encoded in our DNA and our central nervous system.
• Part 9: Brain Research — Moral Psychology The interface of brain research and moral psychology.
• Parts 10 & 11: Terror Management Theory & Systems Justification Theory How the fear of our own death and the need to feel good about the cultural system in which we live create resistance to the evidence presented by 9/11 skeptics.
• Part 12: Signal Detection Theory How people perceive information amid external and internal distractions.
• Part 13: Prior Knowledge of State Crimes Against Democracy and Deep Politics How our prior knowledge of state crimes against democracy and of the deep state affects our reception of 9/11 evidence.
• Part 14: Learned Helplessness A conditioned response to trauma or adversity that involves ongoing pain and actual or perceived lack of control.
• Part 15: The Abuse Syndrome The “nothing we can do about it” reaction may be a result of toxic early relationships — which cause feelings of powerlessness, shame, or apathy in adulthood.
• Part 16: Dissociation Repressed traumas can be activated by challenging 9/11 information, causing some individuals to dissociate once again.
• Part 17: The False Self and Excessive Identification with the U.S.A. How extreme attachment to the image of one’s country is a consequence of having never developed a healthy ego or sense of self.
• Part 18: American Exceptionalism and Nationalist Faith Why those who are privileged tend to be hesitant to accept the evidence.
• Part 19: Government Manipulation and the Big Lie Projection, scapegoating, and the conundrum of those people who suspect they are being lied to, but cling to the web of lies told to them.
• Part 20: Those Who Lack Conscience and Empathy As many as 4% of Americans are true psychopaths. By definition, any psychopath is capable of participating in mass murder and expressing no remorse whatsoever.
• Part 21: The Role of the Media — Act I In modern Western societies, if a new idea is covered in a serious way on television or in the newspaper, then, and only then, is it considered “real.”