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^ Aside from those statistics though, I think the biggest cause of the rank stupidity you see in American society today has got to be the media.
Back in the olden days (say, 10 years ago) there was this idea that journalism should be objective. You had the news on the front page, the opinion piece would be buried on page 5 or something.
Same thing with TV. If you ever watched 60 Minutes on CBS, about 57 of the 60 minutes were just straightforward, objective news. For the final 3 minutes their opinion guy, Andy Rooney, would come on and ramble about something.
Fox basically turned the entire prime time TV lineup (the only time most people watch) into one long Andy Rooney segment. Where once you had Tom Brokaw reading the news, people now come home from work to see Glenn Beck ranting about Socialism and whatever the fuck else.
In other words yes there's always been stupid people but if they seem more stupid now, keep in mind that they proabably didn't arrive at their crazy beliefs independently, they saw it on TV. When one political party is working hand in hand with an entire network, you can convince people of some pretty crazy shit.
- should read some neil postman. amusing ourselves to death sheds some nice insight on the topic********
- it seems fox is smarer in supplying the demand then the rest. jon stewart and colbert are also pretty good. satire good agendas as bad as fox********
- agendas as bad as fox********
- Pravda was also extremely popular in Soviet Russiaukit
- It's easy to be popular when you have the backing of the state (or half of it in this case)ukit
- its more human nature. entertainment is more pleasant then critical thinking. seriously a good read********
- youd dig the books cover with reagan and a clown nose********
- should read some neil postman. amusing ourselves to death sheds some nice insight on the topic