Truth is seldom a complicated matter - its foundation, at least. A single underlying emotion, a single action that triggered others, a simple rule which governs the ensuing events. However, if you do not know the truth, if you have to search for it, it might get a little complicated. You might have a theory about what the plain truth is, but unless you can integrate every single factual observation you have made into that theory, you can not conclude that you are on the right path.

As someone who has learnt to work with scientific methods and as an artist who is deeply interested in the human mind, I am fascinated by those who call themselves the "truthers". I've come to the conclusion that, although many of them seem to be of the opinion that they possess the truth, almost none of them is actually searching for it.

The truther's collection of "evidence" was possibly never even geared towards the assembly of a single, integrated theory. They have put together a vast amount of information they may call "observations" and "facts", even something they call "conclusions", but obviously, they have become mortally afraid of actually putting together their alternative history of 9/11. For this, they would have to weigh their arguments against each other. They would have to discard some pieces of their puzzle which just would not fit together. It would be like throwing stones into their glass house of prized truther artifacts.

I therefore consider the average truther to be literally indoctrinated. He does not search for the truth, he is unable or unwilling to even attempt to connect the dots on his personal mindmap; yet he continues to fill his mind with individual, inconnectible ideas seemingly geared exclusively towards convincing others. Truthers will not "tell the truth"; they communicate in rhetorical questions, possibly with questionable presuppositons and often irrelevant answers, they indulge in show-and-tell photo "evidence", and they like to show you the way by recommending websites and internet movies.

I have even come across the truther idea that it is "simply not their duty to make such a theory". This is, of course, lunacy in a nutshell. You can not search for the truth by collecting thousands of individual pieces, yet never attempt to finish the puzzle. These people have undergone the perfect indoctrination. I would be interested in their individual truths. But they have none to offer; and here my interest must cease.

The truther who chooses among his "facts", among the things he's been fed by his fellow indoctrinators, the truther who weighs arguments and observations, discards the least plausible and eventually tries to assemble his very personal theory about the truth, would stop belonging to his chosen group. Apart from the thought that his theory could hardly be plausible, aggressively advocating such a theory in the truther community might soon earn him the title of a "desinformant".