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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Well, technically though I didn't/don't suspect so much a "hoax" per se as I do an engineered event designed to serve a specific purpose.
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It would certainly be nice if events like this were actually engineered. Then there would be a big apparatus around that we could blame for them and hold responsible for the horrible results.
I think a lot of human needs are served by thinking that it's some kind of staged event or hoax. It makes the pseudo-skeptic feel like they're in the know, which raises their self-appraisal, while conveniently finding a big shadowy apparatus onto which to heap blame when really the causes of this kind of awful ordeal are diverse, myriad, and hard to address in the sound-byte style that is all we get from the mass media these days.