Without bringing out the conspiracy theorists I met a person did not know how the buildings came down?

Question

She thought that days later after the damage from the planes the buildings were taken down. I guess since I have never met someone who did not know major events I was stuned. Does anyone else know or has come across anyone like that? It was almost a Jessica Simpson is it Chicken (Chicken of the Seas types response to me. This is why I worry when elections are held we have people like this who know nothing about major facts that have impacted our country ovver time.

Answer 1

You know I've lived in the developing world for a number of years and often miss weird things in popular culture.  It's plausible, but pretty rare.

Answer 2

what planet did that person live on?The single greatest tragedy of our generation.Still haunts me to this day.I hope noone ever forget

Answer 3

The only people in the U.S. that really matter in politics is registered voters. I've met people that didn't know much, had strong opinions on every issue, believed in things that they felt strongly about but have never voted.

It's a misconception about the electorate. Just because you have an opinion, if you don't vote- you don't matter.

Answer 4

AlaSpada:  It is amazing how little Americans know of the world.  We are fortunate to live in a country that contains nearly every type of travel destination but a German is more likely to be able to name the 50 states and their capitals than an American.  Most of the world gets international news while few know that just a few hundred miles south of our border, a civil war raged for over 60 years and is only now coming to peace.

There have been so many conspiracy theories thrown around along with 'mock'umentaries, that it does not surprise me at all that a person could be ignorant on this.

The current reports in the media or should I say lack to report the 90% has caused me to start a blog on the things not reported about our current wars.

Read and you'll learn about our enemy, our troops and what is REALLY going on.

War on Terror Blog, http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-DfkctJU7d...

No politics.  Just the groundtruth from a combat veteran that has been to both Fronts in the War on Terror, backed up by independent research and a study of history.

Answer 5

I also worry about liberals being able to vote in elections , there should be some sort of common sense test

Answer 6

There should be a reality test for Republican conservatives.

Answer 7

People all across America vote blindly and uneducated.  Sad to say, but it's not something new.  I'd worry, too.

Answer 8

It appears nearly every person I talk to has misconceptions about the 9/11/2001 building collapse in NYC. Let's stick to the facts:

Three tall buildings discentigrated and collapsed into their footprint on that day in NYC. The twin towers and WTC 7.

The 9/11 Commission report does not explain the collapse of WTC 7 and the explaination of the twin towers collapse contains factual errors, including the biggest: It denies the existence of the huge support core in those buildings.

Physics Professor Steven Jones of BYU has described why explosives must have been planted in the buildings as a planned demoliltion. I've not seen any other credible scientific papers that can account for the collapses as they occured.

The amazing thing is that even a high school physics student can verify that the pancake collapse theory could not happen at free fall speed.

How can the government stand behind such nonsense? No wonder the US government has very little credibility internationaly. This is embarrasing and feeds conspiracy theories in all areas.

Answer 9

This is why "News"sources like FOX are so dangerous.  When you take lemmings who have no minds of their own, and have them watch a news source that feeds them lies and 1/2 truths and let them vote, we end up with idiots and hateful people like Bush in office.