Yet I rarely meet someone who is willing to embrace the idea that they are ignorant on the issue (pick your issue). Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of

Same here! It has become decently frustrating to me in the past at times how much so many people claim to know about almost everything, it seems so rare to meet people who can just admit they don't know something.

And how do you ever learn something new if you already know pretty much everything? I think maybe it has something to do with Google and how people can just Google almost anything these days, though maybe it's been like that going way back into history as well?

It's especially interesting when it's about stuff like God or things that happened millions of years ago or just stuff that is probably impossible to prove like reincarnation, karma or free will.

I try to stay open-minded to all the different possibilities and while I used to think I know a lot more than I did, now I find it kind of liberating to just admit I don't know. By the way, well said in regards to ignorance not being something to be ashamed about! I wish more people felt similar.

Those who step forward perpetuating the anger, perpetuating the ignorance count on this anger to be the catalyst that transforms the potential awesomeness within each of us into a despair that shapes the masses into impotent human cattle. They do this using their polarizing pulpits to stir the brand of anger and hate, each flavored for the limited understanding those groups lean towards.

That's a good point, I was just thinking about something similar the other day and how maybe many conspiracies are put out there to keep us further divided.
And I mean I've had similar thoughts in the past, it seems clear some conspiracy theories are just so far out there they are like "psyops" or propaganda designed to confused and distort and divide, but I was thinking about it more and I think maybe it's a lot move profuse than I thought it was before.

It seems clear a lot is not as it seems and there are conspiracies, yet... So many people latch onto so many differing and conflicting ones nd then argue and fight with each other over such that I think it becomes kind of... Another tool in the "divide and conquer" toolbelt of the "elite". I think what we really need is critical thinking and more people learning how to better go through information and to determine where that line is that is beyond what they can prove and to relegate that to belief and theory as opposed to so called "facts" used to try to shame or control others in ways.

So many conspiracy theorists I think are a bit smarter than the average public when it comes to some of these kinds of things, but many of them end up faithfully believing in their sources in a similar way that the average public just trusts the news or their politicians or whatever. It's like they reject what Fox or CNN says and oftentimes rightfully so, but then go and 100% believe that reptilians are running the world or whichever conspiracy without using critical thinking to properly determine fact from potential fact. And I'm not saying reptilians don't run things, maybe they do. I dunno. I'm just saying I haven't seen the proof and I don't think there is proof out there in the public domain or I would have probably seen it by now.

Also, I agree with your sentiments on climate change and 9/11 Rudy Giuliani.
I don't know the truth in those areas, but I am both skeptical and open-minded to the possibilities.

I do remember an interesting radio broadcast about Rudy that never was spoken about much from a police scanner, lemme see if I can find it real quick... I found it. It appears as if Rudy was on King Street with the police when it seems a van with a mural painted on it of a plane crashing into the twin tower exploded. (Just to be clear I did say "appears" and the van may not have exploded and there could be some kind of propaganda or false information going on here but the evidence seems pretty compelling that I have seen.)

May not have anything to do with forewarning or prior knowledge of the towers coming down, but it tells me that he knows more than the general public especially since that van bomb was never reported on the MSM and can only be found on the police scanner and law enforcement/medical radio.

The King Street van explosion is still in my opinion one of the most interesting and unsolved aspects of 9/11, your post reminded me of this and makes me want to spend some time and look into it again. I dunno what happened, but it does seem like there was sort of a secret society war going on or something, that was much more broad than just the planes. There were other vehicle bombs reported that day and other issues on shots fired and foreigners celebrating and filming the events and such... I think I'm going to touch on this in a future podcast ep when I get that running.

Thank you for reminding me of this and for this very thought provoking post! This was good for me to read and to reexplore. Could be a significant thing!