Reply #1: Fantasy and enterainment can be amusing distractions ...

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but is is only the failure of the American people at large that can account for the failures and travesties we are now experiencing.

We either fess up and take that responsibility, one by one, state by state, city by city, or we continue to immerse ourselves in distractions and amusing, entertaining fantasies that accomplish nothing other than providing escape and consolation within a growing and ever-present crisis of immense proportions. This is not the time to fiddle while Rome burns. The luxury of ignorance and calculated diversion is becoming far to expensive for us in relation to our very survival and the continuity of what we can still value and hope to preserve and pass on to future generations.

How can we treat an impending crisis with reactions to newsbytes and cartoons when the very foundations of our ideologies and trust-based beliefs are clearly at stake? This is it. Make no mistake where YOU are. Maturity seems to imply that you do not stop and play when it is your turn to act in a serious and conscious manner in response to a threatening circumstance of great proportions. It does not take much more than expanded awareness outside the propaganda of mass media and a corresponding action en mass to effect a result. Why are the people of America failing that requirement? Inquiring minds want to know. It is befuddling to see this play out like that.

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