
heads and "experts" whom they worship as authority figures. Unaccustomed to thinking for
themselves, no amount of truth can sway them from their preconceived prejudices. They will
even deny that which they see with their own eyes. They are victims of a psychological
affliction known as "the lemming effect". Lemmings are small rodents who have been observed
to follow each other as they charge to their deaths into raging rivers or even off of cliffs.
Lemminghood is an innate psychological phenomenon, present in most mammals and
observable in common people as well the most sophisticated and educated elites.
Lemminghood is not an intellectual phenomenon - it is psychological. As such, no socio-
economic class is immune to its strangulating effect. A grant- seeking university scientist can
be a lemming just as much as a fashion obsessed teen-age girl. One blindly follows the latest
trendy theory while the other follows the latest clothing style. What's the difference? Neither
can resist the force of nature.
The power to fit in with one's social peers can be irresistible. To a human lemming, the logic
behind an opinion doesn't count as much as the power and popularity behind an opinion. Man,
like lemming, behaves collectively. And it could be no other way. Naturally, the individual must
be equipped with this trait. Otherwise, the smallest steps toward civilization could never have
been made. Lemminghood is a survival trait, an inborn instinct in the majority of people.
However, as with all natural phenomena, this tendency can be manipulated and used for
harmful purposes. It is this lemming effect which enables entire segments of a society to lose
their sense of judgment all at the same time.
This research paper will likely be wasted on many lemmings. For lemmings, denial is a basic
psychological defense mechanism used to not only shield themselves from unpleasant
realities, but also to reassure themselves that they will still fit within the acceptable range of
opinion held by their peer group. Lemmings are absolutely terrified at the thought of being
labeled as an "extremist" or a "conspiracy theorist". At all costs, their beliefs must always be on
the “right” side of the issue and conform within the boundaries of their lemming peers.
Lemmings simply cannot bear the burden of responsibility, or the social discomfort, which
comes with thinking independently. They will resist any efforts to change their misguided
beliefs with all their mental energy. We can try to open their closed minds and free them from
their self-imposed blindness, but it’s not easy fighting the force of human nature. The chains of
ideological conformity have too strong of a grip, and breaking them is a difficult task. With the
limited resources at our disposal, it is next to impossible to compete with the media lemming-
masters. The lie of the emperor is always believed before the truth of the peasant.
Nevertheless, some of us must make the meager attempt, and thus lay the foundation upon
which the truth might one day rise again.
There are those few among us who do possess both the courage and intellectual capacity to
break free of the shackles of lemminghood and accept the truth when it is presented in a clear
and logical sequence. To those open minded and independent thinkers I wish to state clearly
and unequivocally. I intend to set forth in this paper an overwhelming body of evidence
which should forever destroy the ridiculous notion that some Saudi Arabian caveman
and his band of half-trained, nerdy Arab flight school attendees, orchestrated the most
sophisticated terror operation in world history. The very idea is utterly laughable. And yet,
due to the blithering barrage of bullshit dished out by the government/media complex, millions
of "patriotic" Americans have accepted this fantastic fairy tale, this moronic mendacity, this silly
superstition, this dangerous delusion, with a religious conviction bordering on insanity. As an
admittedly useless public service to my helplessly misinformed countrymen of today, and as a
gift to a posterity which will hopefully be more enlightened than my bewildered contemporaries,