The Young Turks

I'm not going to judge you for a simpleton. Popular media like Zeitgeist fall squarely into the category of pseudoscience. They are effective because they are very clever in deployment of subtle but time-honored but misleading techniques of persuasion that aren't easy to spot for the untrained eye. I would urge you to read The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan and then revisit Zeitgeist. He has an excellent chapter in there called the "boloney detection kit" where he outlines all the basic techniques that charlatans use to fool people to, say, believe in U.F.O.s

I don't see how you can reference Occam's Razor and then say that you're beginning to believe that 9/11 was an inside job.  Compare these two scenarios:

1)  A Muslim extremist group which is well financed and has a known track record of successful attacks on western interests, including suicide attacks on US embassies and a US warship, pays for flight training for a group of it's most educated adherants who then hijack planes in a coordinated attack and fly them into buildings at the same time, using known lax security precautions as their primary tool.  Two airplanes which strike the WTC towers cause very intense heat that softens and buckles the steel supports, causing the towers to collapse.  One strikes the Pentagon causing fire and a limited section of the building to burn and collapse.  Another tries for some undetermined Washington landmark but is thwarted by a few brave souls who find out that they are being used as living bombs and decide to break their way into the cockpit rather than just sit still and take it.

OR

2)  A very large group of government employees conspire to stage a fake suicide attack, aided by a group of 19 Arabs with known connections to Al Qaida, who are somehow induced to commit suicide on behalf of a US government plot (Do you pay such people to commit suicide?).  The plotters coordinate the planting of explosive devices to detonate in the precise places in the towers where the airplanes strike, all without arousing the notice or suspicion of anyone working in the World Trade Center and Pentagon.  Note also that the planted explosives must survive the inferno caused by jet fuel burning at the impact point.  The conpirators involve top cabinet members, Air Force personnel, large numbers of explosives technicians, personnel in both WTC towers and the Pentagon, ground controllers, pilots, flight crew, and maybe even airplane passengers.  All of these people must keep absolutely quite about the plot and have a sociopathic predisposition that would allow them to silently watch thousands of innocent people die (we're lucky as all hell it wasn't more than 3,000) for some political conspiracy.  Such people would have to be more detached and murderous than your average Jeffrey Dahmer.  All of this would have to go off without a hitch and leave no evidence behind. 

In one sense it can be forgiven that people ask the question "Did Bush know ahead of time?", because he was so completely blind-sided by the event in spite of being warned repeatedly that there was a very high probability of terrorist activity in the US or on US interests.  This can easily be explained, however, if you understand that they viewed Al Qaida and Bin Laden as "Clinton's boogieman".  They expressed disdain at anything that the Clinton administration viewed as crucial.  They did this all across the board, economic, regulatory, military, judicial, you name the aspect of government, they sought to scrub it of anything Clinton left as a legacy.   

Read the book "Against All Enemies" by Richard Clarke and you'll get an excellent overall idea of just how they perceived foreign policy and national security.  Read Bob Woodward's "State of Denial" for a useful secondary viewpoint.

If I thought there was any credibility to these claims it would be one thing, but they require such extaordinary coordination, collaboration with a large number of conpirators, and an incredible, deliberate, sociopathic malice on the part of some of  the highest government officials in the US that a conpiracy is several orders of magnitude less likely than the scenario it purports to explain.

I think these conspiracy theories distract us from thinking about and solving problems that are crucial.  We can't afford to waste time on this kind of nonsense at this critical time in our history.  I apologize if I come off as abrasive but I really do think it is a load of bullshit.