The American news system, largely television based, has deteriorated to a feeder tube of drivel, designed to keep our eyes glued to the screen, absorbing an ever increasing amount of advertising. The news system has contributed to “dumbing” down the public, largely because it’s a one way stream of mostly sensational nonsense (O.J., Anna Nicole Smith, the “War on Terror”).
Our nation is in desperate need of some independent and critical thinking. This is not a free nation, as we are told every day. Ours is not a free press. We are not free to do what we want to do. And one of the basic causes of this tragedy is that there isn’t any debate. We are being told what to do, what to buy, how to vote and what to think and feel.
The Bush administration took away personal liberties and privacy to an unprecedented degree. And the public did not appear to even notice.
We need to speak up and talk back.
We owe it to our system, our nation, our spirit and our own thinking and feeling to respond with ideas, thoughts, discourse and challenge.
That is why I write this blog. It’s a duty.
