Not accepting the official 9/11 story is a big scary leap into the unknown for most people, that shatters life long deeply held beliefs- and not just political beliefs- but it shatters your basic faith in people and your entire outlook on our culture, media, society, and even what is true and not true.
I know it did for me. I see American society far differently than I used too.
I guess the biggest change for me- how I have "coped" with this acceptance- is that I am literally skeptical of everything I haven't personally experienced or witnessed. I follow no "ism", belong to mass group or movement, don't feel a sense of "patriotism" for anything larger than my city or what is around me.
Abstractins like "nations", and "ism", and ideologies, mean nothing to me now and I think anyone who subscribes to them is a sucker. All you got in this life, all you can trust- is what is in front of your eyes and around you. Family, friends, locality. And anyone who tries to get you concerned or emotionally attached to something larger than that- is using you for a lie and for their own selfish interests.
but it shatters your basic faith in people and your entire outlook on our culture, media, society, and even what is true and not true.
yes it does and that's why, i suppose, so many choose to duck their heads in the sand and go into denial mode. however, one only need look at history to see that this is what governments do to their people and, contrary to what most americans think, it has and will continue to happen in this country and on a larger scale.