Again Thomas Sowell identifies one of the most serious cracks in our Republic.“It is one of the painful signs of our times that millions of people are so easily swayed by rhetoric that they show virtually no interest at all in finding out the hard facts.”
Yes. But I would identify the root of the problem in the monopoly which promotes the idea of the easy, cheap solution - the form of "press" created by the monopoly Associated Press in the mid-Nineteenth Century.Big Journalism flatters its audience just as "Self esteem" education flatters students. Rather than challenging people to think, flattery denigrates the idea that thinking is necessary. "You are so great that your emotional reactions are superior to other people's best rational analysis." Doesn't that make you feel good? You don't have to think about anything at all! Nobody can be smarter than you!
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Thanks for the ping. Let me flatter you c_I_c and THANK YOU for your OUTSTANDING posts, observations, essays, links, research, thinking.
BUMP-TO-THE-TOP!
I heard Mark Levin talking about this issue on a tape delay broadcast earlier this evening. It truly scares me how so many people have bought into the sham that is about to crash upon us in less than three weeks.
We definitely need to watch, fight...and PRAY.