What frightens me

[Newest Reality]

5. He sure has...

He sure has ripped off the glittering mask of our assumptions about many of our fellow Americans. We seem to have far more people out there with a hateful, Fascist mentality than was obvious. In a way, you could say that DJT reflects their image as if they were looking in a mirror and they like that.

However, there has been no real emphasis on critical thinking, reason, logic, etc., so the underlying anti-intellectualism contributes to that and people can be far more prone to the mother of all biases: the confirmation bias.

It seems that the allure of media and entertainment has been a containment field and, as Baudrillard called it, a Simulation.

The medium is the massage, (message).