Not the usual overcomplication
I talk a lot about insufficient paranoia and overcomplicated paranoia.

Official explanations for mysterious events are either insufficient or (more often now) totally psychotic and delusional. Deepstate no longer needs to waste effort on rational-sounding explanations. It's more fun to spew bizarre impossible myths and watch the media expand the bizarritude.

Alternative explanations often get tangled up in HUGELY unnecessary complexities. The usual conspiracy theory needs a wall-map organizational chart to link all the secret connections to nonexistent organizations. This is a natural tendency among alternative folks, and Deepstate exploits it by using Agents Provocateurs to "help" the alt folks write the craziest possible complexity.

More generally, every event has an optimally USEFUL explanation. Ockham wanted us to take the simplest possible. Later modifications (sometimes "quoting" Einstein) clarified the goal. You want to pull hard toward simplicity but stop before you leave out important variables or concepts. Include every force that really drives the event, leave out stuff that doesn't matter or couldn't matter. It's a delicate balance, requiring constant checking and feedback.

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This discussion of CIA and 9/11 is annoying. Robert Scheer is interviewing an author who overcomplicates in an unusual way, clearly serving Deepstate's purposes. The author properly avoids the usual nonsense about "steel doesn't melt" and "controlled demolition", but ALSO avoids the basic functioning of Deepstate. He literally violates Ockham, postulating the existence of mythical entities called "laws", and then assumes that these "law" entities have a mysterious secret way of controlling CIA's behavior. He claims that CIA was tracking the Saudi dudes but failed to warn others of their plans and intentions because CIA needed to "stay inside" these mysterious "laws".

Needless to say, these entities do not exist. CIA has always operated OPENLY inside the USA, and CIA has always done whatever it wants to do. These "law" myths can sometimes be weaponized for Deepstate's advantage because too many ordinary people have been conditioned to believe in the myth. Deepstate never allows "laws" to limit or restrain its own actions.

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