Is ANYBODY watching the news? Society seems so dumbed down..

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I think even without the context, we can understand Orwell's remark though. The rest of the quote doesn't change what he was trying to say by a large amount.

I read the Onion, the seem to really know what is going on...everyone else seems to be making sh*t up.

Update from the Middle East via MySpace 10 years ago,
In Egypt, Muslims are killing Muslims.
In Libya, Muslims are killing Muslims.
In Saudia Arabia, Muslims are killing Muslims.
In Gaza, Muslims are killing Muslims.

Update from the Middle East via MySpace Today,
In Egypt, Muslims are killing Muslims.
In Libya, Muslims are killing Muslims.
In Saudia Arabia, Muslims are killing Muslims.
In Gaza, Muslims are killing Muslims.


Treat news outlets like a barometer. It can tell you the pressure which can be a signal to do a little more research.

I see that a lot of you don't follow politics and stuff because of the media. I'm the same way. However, I have found something that kicks major butt when it comes to delivering the news. This guy is the best imho. I watch him daily (except weekends because he doesn't do the show on weekends). He has gotten to appear on MSNBC a few times. Here's a sample:

[The Young Turks

This guy and his staff are excellent researchers and are on top of things. This guy has predicted events to come many times and I watched it all unfold just as he said it would. Good stuff!

I agree with Inventor, he's got it right.

But the real importance of what's happening in the middle east is we are seeing democracy growing from the bottom up there. This contrasts badly with our foreign policy for the last thirty years, which has been to 'export democracy' as we called it, which is really using American money and American blood to control the source of oil. Actually, we have a very long record of backing vicious dictators as long as they cooperated with us. We didn't want Gaddafi to go because we had just shot a deal with him after releasing that mass murderer the Lockerbie bomber for 'health' reasons. This the same with all of the oil sheiks out there who are spending most of that oil money on themselves and their families and doing nothing to speak of for their people. They thought they could get away with that forever with American support behind them.

What is proves to the world is that we are NOT the 'arsenal of democracy'. We are in fact a neo-imperialist predator state that is rightly feared and hated by the rest of the world. At the last minute Obama decided to join a movement that has really already left us behind in order to try to show our sympathy, but it's too late. We are not leading this, we are following as best we can. Events are already completely out of our control, and it will get worse. So will the radiation in Japan by the way, forget the pap they are trying to sell you on TV.

This reminds me most of 1848, the year that all of Europe revolted against the Ancient Regime. Most of the revolts were bloodily suppressed, by in the long run it didn't matter. The Ancient Regine never regained any credibility and eventually collapsed. Another more recent example is the Solidarity revolt in Poland in the '80s. The communists insisted for the longest time in their propaganda that they were a worker's party and everything they did was for the worker. The fact that a real worker's party was revolting against them destroyed their credibility for all time, and their empire fell.

Now it's our turn.

I hate the news and everything to do with it. For years I have lived in sheer terror of the state of the world and being reminded of how the planet is doomed every two minutes doesn't help. Right now I'm depressed and worried sick because of what happened in Japan. I live in Canada and I seem to be the only person who is like this, I have asked how people can go on with their everyday lives without even thinking about thinking that soon we are all going to die horribly. And when people ask me if there's anything they can do to help, I tell them "you can' t change the world, so you can't change the way I feel about it". I feel like I have no reason to try and succeed at anything anymore because there's no point, so I might as well spend my last few months alive playing video games and drawing cartoons and having a good time. At least I don't numb it with alcohol and other drugs like most people do.

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
— Mark Twain

The mainstream media keeps people stupid.... Al Jazeera shows more real news but people have to understand that even that is a little biased occasionally. Still it's not nearly as biased as Fox news that is basically just jingoist disinformation.

I follow people on twitter who are Arabs and see them call Al Jazeera propaganda occasionally, people who I respect. Typically the business news is more honest, but don't ever believe that issues involving foreign policy are going to be reported unbiasedlly (sp?) in the US. It's like Soviet Pravda.