Wow. Lot’s of good comments on this article…I guess that shows critical thinking is not dead…at least not on this site!
Moptop- your comments are exactly what I was contemplating as I read the article! Say something enough times throughout the media (and let’s not excuse the Hollywood “entertainment” industry by ANY means…the ULTIMATE propaganda machine!) and IT BECOMES the TRUTH!
Any descenting or contrary view to what is “accepted” and “cool” is looked at as ridiculous and greeted with derision contempt. So there you have it… young people today, in fact ANYBODY who gets their opinions and information from MTV, movies, the latest rap song, even network news or just a “persuasive” and powerful teacher or professor at scool will be (and IS as we speak) lead to whatever conclusion is “popular” without questioning the existing reality or the “opposing” facts…because FACTS DON’T MATTER!
How else do you explain the popularity of Obama, a speaker who can “wow” a crowd, but with an actual resume and experience that should BARELY put him up for reelection in the state senate, much less as 1 of 2 people who will soon be President!?
Or the UNPOPULARITY of Bush…a man who has literally liberated MILLIONS from tyranny, with the support of a DEMOCRATIC congress at the time of Congress…but who now gets the “blame”… for what???
A war that is now virtually COMPLETELY being won and a country in Iraq that is now standing up on it’s own feet…but which the media will barely acknowledge, and the “popular” opinion will not accept…because it goes against the “message” and what has been drummed into them as the “TRUTH”.
And that TRUTH is only what I have been letting into my eyes and ears without thinking about, because it is just is TOO DAMN HARD to do my own thinking… and who has the time anyway????
