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Hi Proton, I haven't read part 1 because I'm new to the assembly. This is a memory collection of being under the spell.

The airplane melting into the building and the buildings vaporizing bugged me when I was a normie. It looked wrong, but I didn't watch the reels playing over and over to burn it into my neurons. I couldn't see the logic in attacking a whole country to kill one guy that I thought was already dead. It looked to me like a national Where's Waldo and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego game. If the incident at Waco in our own country was an indicator, they would burn up the entire place and that didn't make sense to me. I was in school at the time, and they ceased classes for the rest of the day and people sat in the lounges and watched the reels play. I just walked around watching everybody watching. It seemed like a spell to me even at the time, but I didn't understand any of it.

I felt like there was something weird about the dean stopping everything to watch TV, because at a previous assembly job I had, they stopped work to watch the verdict on the OJ Simpson trial. I hadn't watched the proceedings for that either, but being a normie I did go to restaurants and this was the era when TV screens were showing up everywhere, so the Luby's shooting and the slow speed chase or various discussions about murders accompanied my dining pleasure.

The Weirdness accumulated. Why were TVs suddenly everywhere? Why would they stop all operations at a 'university' (it didn't make sense then), stop production at my job, announce that the whole country was on red or Orange alert about terrorists being everywhere?

I may have some of my facts conflated, but my normie-hood is probably typical. The nonsense of events gets registered like a splinter that you don't have time to dig out. The explanations don't fit previous experience or knowledge but there is nobody smart around to compare notes with or get a new idea sparking. People relayed what they heard from the TV.

As I recall, the advice from the TV for the possible anthrax attacks was to tape up your house with plastic sheeting and duct tape. If the TV told you in time. Ah. That reminded me of the post box bombings and the advice to stand back and open the box with a long stick.

Well. That ruled out the TV as a good advisor for me.

I knew a little about JP-8 from an excursion in our defense industry. And a little bit about chemical warfare from the same bunch of maniacs. Once, during an exercise, I was given a small slip of paper that said, "M-16" on it when I was a door guard, checking ids. Being dressed in gas mask helmet suit etc with a little piece of paper was my defense when the base was overrun by the enemy.

I didn't actively think about how the towers looked when they were falling down but I sort of guessed that unless there was something stored there or in the plane that would torch concrete, it probably wasn't jet fuel that burned up the towers. At the time there was a TV show about the demolitions of buildings, that was reminiscent. Why would the buildings look the same way?

When you are a normie and you don't know you're a normie it seems normal to keep your non consensus thoughts to yourself. Keep in mind, this was before the Google oracle was widely available for quick reference. I wasn't an early adopter. After all, if you did present a 'novel' notion, the normie rejoinder was and still is, "Why would they do that?", " You don't have a degree in ------. " or uh. "You don't know what you're talking about".

What they said was true, I didn't know why, I didn't have a degree and I wasn't sure what I was talking about, but I knew that the bozos on TV and the lying politicians and the nutjobs in the military or the corporate world had their own reasons for what they do and I didn't have to believe nonsense even if I couldn't talk about it.

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Amaterasu Solar's avatar

I'm giving "nuclear bombs" a probability of existing at... Approaching zero. Like actual planes on 9/11.

Excellent work, little proton!!!

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