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Well, it's how the masses get informed. The same masses who vote. It's where most people get their information, I'm afraid.
No, it's how you get informed (using the term as loosely as possible). It's something of an assumption to say that the majority of people (those pesky zombified sheeple masses) can't be bothered to get information from slightly more reliable sources.
Those which form the 90% of the "scientific" community who are most quoted by the news media.
%Wow, I'm obviously in the wrong percentile. You'd think it'd be easy to jump the gap into the overwhelming majority so I too can spread disinformation and lies to the filthy masses, but it's harder to get into that 90% than it is to get into The Armoury.%
For every story about global warming there's another one from a "legitimate" scientist (in the employ of Exxon)countering it.
Yet those dim-witted sheeple masses seem to be much more accepting of the fact of climate change than they do of the denier factions. Perhaps they are capable of thinking on their own! Note to self: Increase levels of anti-depressants and tranquilisers in world water supply.
I do know that when I grew up we ate less processed foods, were allowed less soda, and had a healthier respect (sometimes fear) for authority. I'm not saying that kids are worse today; They're not. But they do have more stacked against them: Less freedom, worse food, more drugs(such as Ritalin), prone to more allergies and enviromental pathogens, less discipline, and to top it off they're the targets of massive consummerist advertising campaigns which can become mind-boggingly confusing as they try to teach each child to try identify themselves with such-and-such a product.
Y'know, if you took off those rose-tinted glasses, I think you might be better able to contribute. Perhaps stop making these massively generalising statements too.
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing, but it does tend to cloud judgement.
Out of interest, don't you find that your views of the utopian perfection of hunter-gatherer societies smacks a little too much of the "noble savage" cliche? It isn't all teacups and roses and raindrops and kittens you know? |
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