The system is broken. We see the collapse at all levels of government–our economy and our ecosystem are just the symptoms of the disease that is affecting the United States. Technology gave us a new electorate who elected an American Idol President. Democrats and Republicans point at each other in sound bites and then go back into their respective offices to meet and greet the lobbyists and campaign contributors, sometimes they are one in the same. Media is controlled by corporations and investors and so they feed us the good news pablum. Only the other day, one national news person remarked that although the oil spill in the Gulf was an environmental and economic disaster, the spill amounted to a drop in the bucket in comparison to our overall usage. Now, doesn’t that make you feel better? Meanwhile, any websites that present a contrasting view of the news either gets hacked if it goes viral, or it does not make the google search. A free press? Think again. Yet where is the outcry? Where are the enraged citizens?
The truly sad thing about Memorial Day is that we honor all those who have died to preserve our freedom while we see the disappearance of those freedoms either by calculating entities or by sheer apathy of the masses. Do you know that the most successful sites are pornography sites on the web? Even the most hits have to do with entertainment celebrities, sex scandals, or both? Instead of an intelligent, educated population, we’ve devolved into a hedonistic, narcissistic pack of syncophants.
The recession and the environmental disaster plaguing us are just symptoms, the disease lies within us as we fall farther and farther away from values, ideals, sacrifice, and God!
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There is no free press. Now the government wants to tax blogs to save main stream media: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/4/ftc-floats-drudge-tax/