"They'd prefer an evil conspiracy because, evil though it may be, it indicates some sort of control, and allows them to live in denial about how easily the whole apple cart can be upset by random events."
Well, this isn't me you're describing. Given the choice, I'd vastly prefer to live in a dangerous random universe than one ruled by evil geniuses. But it's not about what I'd prefer, it's about what really happened, and to know that we need more information. Information that few people have any interest in collecting, unfortunately.
As I said, I think it's the defenders of the official version who are clinging to a worldvierw that comforts them. What's really the scarier narrative for people to confront? "Nasty Islamic terrorists blew something up again, but this time they went too far and we're gonna take care of them for good and we're all together in this!", or "Nasty presidential administration blew up their own citizens to manipulate public opinion and will do so whenever they feel it's necessary, and nobody wants to look into it."
I didn't start off doubting the official version. I didn't even give it a thought. When I saw the attacks on TV that day, I said to myself, "Well, it had to happen sometime". The Nasty Islamic terrorist story made perfect sense to me. But since then enough holes have been poked into that story that I don't feel it should be swept into history's dustbin. I think that a real concerted effort needs to be made to figure out what happened. It's amazing to me that almost eight years later there has been no attempt to do this, and nobody seems to mind. It's like we're all comfortable living in ignorance, being spoon-fed official narratives from self-interested corrupt bureaucrats, only rejecting them or accepting them bsed on how they work for us emotionally. Are we all totally unconcerned with the truth? What's so radical about wanting an independent investigation of the biggest security failure in the history of the US? Why is that so ludicrous?
In a sane society it would be considered ludicrous not to have one, but in ours, so steeped in delusion, you can't even raise perfectly obvious questions without being labelled a crackpot, if it tramples a few of western culture's sacred cows. Could capitalism be enslaving us all? Lunatic. Capitalism makes us free. Is our consumption unsustainable? Madman. Science will solve all problems in the future. Doesn't a security failure of this magnitude need to be looked into? Nutcase. We already know what happened, the papers told us.
Sorry, your blanket dismissals are not good enough for me.