I See Dumb People

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http://www.alternet.org/story/106551

"The change from a print-based to an image-based society has transformed our nation. Huge segments of our population, especially those who live in the embrace of the Christian right and the consumer culture, are completely unmoored from reality. They lack the capacity to search for truth and cope rationally with our mounting social and economic ills. They seek clarity, entertainment and order. They are willing to use force to impose this clarity on others, especially those who do not speak as they speak and think as they think. All the traditional tools of democracies, including dispassionate scientific and historical truth, facts, news and rational debate, are useless instruments in a world that lacks the capacity to use them."

Dead on correct.

This article absolutely nails what has happened to America since, I would say, the very early 1980s - the campaigns of Ronald Reagon in other words. And it is highly informative reading in a context of our current, and critical, "debate" about our health care.