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

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No one I talk to has A CLUE what's going on right now in the Middle East or how important it is.

Out of 154 friends I have on Facebook, only one has posted anything about it in the past 48 hours.

Everyone is still talking about how drunk they got last night, who won the game on TV, or who broke up with who. No one seems to care that hundreds of people are being slaughtered in Libya every day, or that the Arab world is in an uprising that has the potential to cause the world economy to completely collapse, when it's all over the news.

The very most I hear is, "I can't do anything about it anyway."

There's no one to talk politics to and it just sucks.

I know a lot of people on here are from the UK, is your society as dumbed down as it is here in the US? People from other countries, including the UK, seem to be way more in touch. Foreigners always seem smarter than Americans.

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People in the UK are closer to events that present a reality that a nations future is not a given. Twenty four hour cable networks get a good audience. But, the overwhelming majority of Americans are tuned out of what is going on in the world and the country. In my lifetime the only time I saw a sense of nation was after 9-11. For a while people didn't take "nation" for granted, divisions among people quickly melted away.

We fight against ourselves until a purpose strong enough binds us together. Ask most people on the street and they will tell you that Government and Obama is bad, or thank goodness we are finally getting some kind of healthcare reform. Or like you say, I don't care what can I do about it. The problem is when it is time to vote it is over one or two issues, not the big picture.

I don't think people are dumbed down; people do what makes them feel good. Keeping track of politics and the worlds news is the last thing on many peoples minds, particularly those that have feathered nests.

At the point that people start to suffer a consequence, they will pay attention. Until then I doubt much will change.

Well, if you study social sciences like i am, you are bound to hear about it. ^^ In fact, i check the news almost every day lately, what's happening in the Middle East right now is pretty important stuff. =/ It's not every day Arab countries protest against their dictators that have been in power for at least 30 years in average. =P The most interesting aspect is how it's spreading like a chain reaction. :p And how not ALL revendications are made by muslims (And by that, i mean fundamentalists, the type to push forward religion into the State) too.

Politics is just too important for people not to have any interest in it, yet... Here in my country a lot of people proudly say 'I hate politics' without even realising how stupid that is. As the quote goes (supposedly by Pericles): 'Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.'

I love talking about politics, by the way. After languages, it's my biggest obsession, along with religions.

Most people here are on the internet. It would be hard for anyone to be totally unaware of it, but many are probably not reading any details on the news event. Many choose issues related to Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan over the serious events happening in the Middle East.

I've payed attention to this the scary part is the supposed crazy person Glenn Beck actually predicted something like this was going to happen.

Oh, Libya is just the beginning. In 10 years, things will be much worse. There will be a domino effect, because this is all economic, and the global economy is just that...global.

Why the hell would I be watching the news.....I can't take the commercials or the biased way in which news is presented.

Meh, i watch the state news, they're pretty good, and although they might not give ALL the information, i think they do a good job at remaining the least subjective possible (being unbiaised). Publicity is just annoying, i just try to pick up whatever doesn't make sense in them and laugh internally at how people could fall for that. ^^ Or i just rant. =/

Daryl_Blonder,

I suggest people start at http://whatreallyhappened.com/

Forget Glen Beck. He is a shill. Go straight to the source at http://www.prisonplanet.com/ and http://endoftheamericandream.com/

Good luck to you if you are new to the red pill. You have a lot to learn and it will be painful to realize that most of what you have been told is a lie.

Watching the news leaves me less informed than before.

Why Nobody Trusts the Mainstream Media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WolO3w2Fr60

I am. I was looking at Egypt since 2010. I was predicting massive protests in 2011 because their presidential elections were coming up. Then Tunisia's overthrow inspired the protests earlier than expected. Thankfully I declined studying abroad in Egypt for Winter 2011 or I would have been caught in that mess. =(

Everyone I know and their brother is watching what's going on in the middle east right now, and I am the US.

I'm not sure if this is appropriate or not but I'll just forge on ahead with my two cents.

When I first started getting into the whole 'wtf is going on with the news it is mostly BS and I can't find any real information that has not been doctored like a plastic surgeon's nightmare' I got into Alex Jones. He is Glenn Beck's conservative archenemy. He yells a lot. I was pissed the f**k off and I liked that he yells a lot and talks about things that make people uncomfortable when you bring them up in conversation at the bus stop.

He sheds light on some suspicious stuff (Bilderberg, NWO, mayhem, etc.) but now I am also convinced that he's a little crazy.. His websites are part entertaining rants, part advert for survival kits and bulk grains, and part news. The sources he cites make me a little suspicious. He thinks that juice boxes make kids gay. I mean, there's some crazy s**t going on, but I don't like having to sort out the crazy s**t that a newscaster is illuminating from the equally crazy s**t that he's spewing.

I don't want to come off as antagonistic, it just so happens you posted about Alex Jones after I'd heard about him airing a rant from Charlie Sheen and it lit up a little fire in my heart No offense intended. Like I said, he does spit some truth.

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So.. I don't watch the news on television. I read a few websites, among them
http://www.propublica.org/
http://www.projectcensored.org/
http://hightowerlowdown.org/
http://www.alternet.org/
http://edge.org/

I am interested to see what others read/watch/imbibe.

I do follow world news, and mostly nothing is going on. The people of Libya were content with the man for 42 years? I read his Green Book, it had to be self published.

I think the news works best in the other direction, they see that bad as they were, Bush and Blair got replaced.

It is nothing new to the rest of the world that governments will be bought.

At the recent Westminster Congress Show leading Brokers, Banks, and War Production showed their Congressmen. It was a joy watching them trotting around the ring on a leash. The Best In Show was a purebreed Beltway Insider, always a favored breed.

They are elected Lobbyists. Plain and simple, millions were spent to elect someone to a job that pays $189,000 a year. Their function is they spend Trillions. That is not enough, the National Debt was extra, spent to take over oil fields, install puppet governments, and it was all legal, for it was done by lawyers.

The results are, after going from zero under the Taliban, Afganistan is now producing record amounts of Opium.

As for the rest of our Dictators, our man in Tunisa, Egypt, Libya, were not popular, but they had American support, which became the political party. Considering the number of people we have killed for Freedom, that is not what the survivors got when we took over. We called rule by the people Communist, and killed them.

Our killing machine is a bit over extended right now, and losing.

Also, we used to be the big customer, but China and India are now, and offer a better deal.

Most of the real news would never be reported, it is America following the path of the British Empire. Decline is an ugly show.

With the recent doubling of American dollars, we are marked down as a world power of any sort. China has declared Economic War, Markets are falling to the Chinese worldwide. We gave them enough cash to buy Libya.

That is bad, but we lost Detroit and Cleavland on our own.

So news has to reflect the message, we have not lost, or more correctly been sold out. That is getting hard to do.

So how about them Celebs! A new sex partner and drug addiction is the New American Way, and more likely than winning the lottery. If struck twice by lightning, and survive, buy a lottery ticket.

Bread and Circuses!

for the most part, talking politics is a waste of one's breath, in that either one is preaching to the choir so what's the use, it's already common knowledge among the group- or one is trying to convince somebody else [of an opposite viewpoint] to change their mind about something that touches upon the very fiber of their being, and so of course they won't budge an inch and will take mighty umbrage at anybody with the temerity to even bring the subject up. that is why it has long been considered an axiom of civility, to not discuss politics and religion in mixed company.
phillip k. dick might've been thinking of pericles when he said "reality is that which doesn't go away when you stop believing in it."