Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> More interestingly, it explains *why* people want to believe such 
>> ludicrous claims: for the personal glory.
> 
>   Yeah. If what that article claims is true, the author of the Loose Change
> "documentary" originally didn't even believe in the conspiracy, but simply
> did the first version of the film just for fun and experiment, by deliberately
> picking up certain material and ignoring the rest, just to see how it would
> turn out. Only after he was offered glory and cash was it that he started
> making it a serious attempt at a convincing (and outright deceiving) movie.
> 
>   I suppose he succeeded big time. He got his fame, followers, TV time and
> money.

I wasn't there, I didn't see what happened, but it seems like a 
plausible story to me.

Of course, making up nonesense to get attention isn't new. (How many 
forgers and con artists have claimed to have telekenesis?) The 
interesting question is why the followers want to believe this stuff. 
And again, it comes down to glory: Of all the sheeple here, only *I* and 
my elite friends know The Truth. We are the modern Illunimati.

http://www.xkcd.com/610/

I wonder if that's why all the Editor Wars happened?

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