What's funny about 9/11 conspiracy theories is that 9/11 really was a conspiracy. You would think that conspiracy theorists would be in high heaven over that running through the streets with joy. Finally, here is an opportunity to believe in a conspiracy theory that was actually based in fact. But the conspiracy theorists can't seem to buy into the fact that it was a conpiracy of religious extremists and not one perpetrated by our own government.

This fits in with what ktesibios mentioned about ancient beliefs in gods. There is a tendency to want to believe that what goes on in the world, good or bad, is orchestrated by some agent lurking in the shadows behind the scenes, be it a god or a conspiracy of government officials or big business. On the JFK side, at least one conspiracy theorist suggested that the world we step into each morning is like the world seen in the movie The Truman Show. It is all just props and actors on huge stage, a big play put on in order to deceive us.