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Really, all that’s left is…
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“Just Slowclap it out.”
July 2012
June 2012
The Founding Fathers were always aware of putting power into the hands of a populace with little or no literacy. We have a Senate because they wanted more calm, educated, deliberative minds to control the passions of the body politic.
They had no concept of a mass media that can hold powerful sway over voters who are so low functioning, or of a Senate that has been brought to the level of the House, whose rules have been changed to lessen its power as a gateway.
What is more troubling, though, is that those who are well educated are becoming increasingly more ignorant, ignoring their civic life in favor of solely profitable or pleasurable pursuits.
About 19% of voters narrow-bands their interest in public life to a single issue like abortion, gun rights, LGBT rights to the point that they do not engage in broader public issues, according to ABC News.
Many, particularly young adults, that do read news, lack the attention span to even read through an article of any length.
The USA TODAY syndrome of “dumbing down” the news to appeal to readers with nano-second attention spans has further catered to our political and social devolution.
America’s poor reading habits belie its passion for entertainment and self-gratification, with no care for civics or how the world around them is being reshaped.
What exactly is Obamacare and what does it change?
big thanks to reddit user CaspianX2 for typing all this out!
What people call “Obamacare” is actually the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. However, people were calling it “Obamacare”…
There’s been a lot of noise over the past few weeks, from various people and places, about the quality of the current electronic dance music experience.
On June 23 – enjoying the afterburn of a Rolling Stone cover story in which he called out everyone from Skrillex to David Guetta for…
This. This is the essence. Right here.
