Uncle Patso says:

In certain lines of work, paranoid schizophrenia is a definite advantage, if not a job requirement. Paranoids are usually quite personable, and able to sound sensible and intelligent, and their ramblings and ravings have just enough plausibility to almost be taken seriously.

Sen.Taft says:

How many times have you scanned comments only to see variations of these three things:

1. emotional opinions with no support: “___ is a nutjob!”

2. analysis from unsupportable personal experience: “Ah’ve been on the scene some tweenty yars, and ah kin tell you _____ is RIGHT!”

3. incredulity that others can’t see ______, which seems obvious, without supporting why _____ is so obvious: “we are now living in a police state, and you think [insert name being defended] is crazy for telling you? wake up!”

All these are the symptoms of people educated to, by reflex, consume and regurgitate prepackaged facts and analysis — something John Taylor Gatto calls “pre-thought thoughts.”

Versus WHAT, you say? versus acquiring a set of facts, analyzing them for logical consistency, and then from this effort entering into a process of creating conclusions which are testable theses, accepting or rejecting based on logic, and restarting the process with their conclusions.

I’m not going to flagellate you with my own conclusions, which is that Alex Jones is both substantially accurate and authentic. Instead, I would only urge you to consider adopting formal logic and analysis similar to that thumbnailed above; something my grandfather humbly called “using common sense.”