Summary: In this year's 9/11 extravaganza KMO welcomes Doug Lain, author, editor, and fellow podcaster, to the program to help make sense of some 9/11 themed commentary from James Howard Kunstler, John Horgan, Gwynne Dyer, and (indirectly) Douglas Rushkoff. Doug & KMO then continue the conversation in episode 22 of the Diet Soap Podcast. Lorenzo Hagerty of the Psychedelic Salon adds his perspective on attitudes surrounding 9/11 to the C-Realm mix in a prelude to next week's show. Douglas Rushkoff writes: Yes, I believe that 9-11 theorizing debilitates the counterculture. It robs us of some potentially creative thinkers. It replaces truly important questions with trivial ones. It marginalizes more constructive investigation of American participation in the development of Al Qaeda as well as its subsequent aggravation. And perhaps worst of all, it is precisely the sort of activity that government disinformation specialists would want us to be involved with. Link: http://www.arthurmag.com/2007/09/20/rushkoff-on-911-conspiracy-theorists stupidculture posted the following to the PodOMatic entry for this episode: As a long time fan of your podcast and someone who understands your ambivalence towards the topic yet is not afraid of pointing out the Naked Emperor at hand, I would HIGHLY recommend what activist Ken Jenkins has to say. Please check out: "Psychological Aspects Of 9-11" http://www.archive.org/details/snowshoefilms_KenJenkins_PsychologicalAspectsOf911 He would be a great guest on a future show on the topic. and ...IMHO. A more recent article by Ken Jenkins: "The Truth is Not Enough: How to Overcome Emotional Barriers to 9/11 Truth" http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/KenJenkins_9-11_psychology.pdf And there are two threads on the C-Realm Forum on the Grow Report on the topic of 9/11 eight years after the fact: Nine Oh Nine Oh Nine (#170) and 911/ oil/ Iraq.
