The population today no longer has the ability to process and think about complex issues in any depth....at all!
Kids (anyone under 30!) seem to be surgically attached to their phones, yet the information they take in is chopped into Twitter-sized snippets. No context. No nuance. No deeper understanding of an issue or an event or a problem.
Why do you think hurricane coverage has become what it is? Big build-up for days, breathlessly talking about the danger. Send in the clowns...er, live on site reporters....to be shown blowing around and being pelted with rain. Then cover the devastation for a day or two and finally move on to the next thing. Pre-packaged new as entertainment in the disaster movie genre...
There are others too....the bombs? Terror-porn TV. the president? Reality show run amok...with no push back or follow up or consequences. Puerto Rico and Flint, MI...these are AMERICANS that continue to suffer the effects of horrible things FOR YEARS and they can't get a mention on TV for anything. Yet, President Trump's latest re-run rally and utterly repugnant statements get breathlessly retweeted and rebroadcast on Twitter Media News shows (doesn't matter the network - aside from right-vs-left slant, they are ALL the same...panels with 4,5,6 "guests"....discussions that each "expert" gets to agree with the host and the other guests before the commercial break and then again in the segment after the break...
It is all horseshit and destructive. America started to die when people stopped reading - books, magazines, newspapers...we are a nation of morons, led by a carnival barker and ruled by monied interests who are fine and dandy with keeping this status quo going.
Fuck this shit hole country...we collectively deserve what we are collectively accepting. The media coverage and our own Tse-tse fly attention spans ensure that no real change is coming any time soon...the Democrats take the house? So? There will be investigations and panels and more interviews and more inane shit coverage, but how many CONVICTIONS? IMPEACHMENTS? REMOVALS FROM THE BENCH OR OFFICE? How many? I already know the answer, and if people are being honest with themselves for a hot minute, they know too...
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