Bradley Manning - Prison
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The public doesn't care not necessary because they don't care but rather because they prefer the safety of what they know. Batman and Afflec is not that hard to comprehend - one is cartoon character, the other wears a cape (yeah, yeah- not funny). To completely understand Manning's revelations takes shit load of studying, connecting facts, looking at the affairs from a variety of perspectives, challenging one's preconception of the world...list goes on and on. People are fearful of what might be on the other side of the mirror and thus they go into the known banalities. It has a bit to do with lack of education and lack of genuine curiosity about the world (yes, at the time where the world's knowledge is at your fingertips) but it probably has more to do with this fear where the heroes and role models are gone. Everyone is told to be, to use US Army's slogan, all that you can be but most people forgets that it's only a myth. Majority of people don't really have the capacity to be anything else then a follower of some ideology. The times we live in is a direct result of times where ideology is gone and people are left to fend for themselves. And where the masses are left wondering aimlessly Affleck and Batman prevails.