Snowdon is a dummy

If you find the endless news reporting to be the suppliers to addicted followers so to speak, why then do you come to a political board to discuss political events reported in the news?

This thread seems to have splintered off in different tracks than the one intended.

You're entitled to your opinion, but the dumbing down of the US is a well known evolution.[p/quote]

You are getting further and further into delusion, Olivier. Is the pressure getting to you?

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It's made on purpose of course, with the idea that poor people shouldn't have too much education, otherwise they can make informed political choices.

Even stupid people can make informed political choices. But there is no dumbing down going on. You just want to think that about America. Hey...if it makes your life worth living, go for it.

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So the point is not the stupidity -- that's a mean to an end -- as much as it is the contempt for the rest of the world.

I have no contempt for the rest of the world...and I suspect most Americans don't. But you certainly have lots of contempt for us, Olivier. You might want to consider some professional help for that.

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France or the UK never created a world economic crisis just because some bankers in Paris wanted more cocaine and more whores, which is what happened in 2008 when Wall Street, having dupe Washington for years, screwed up the entire world economy just because of greed. Millions plunged in poverty as a result but the filthy rich bankers could receive their bonuses, thank Gowd.

France and Great Britain did plenty of very reprehensible things during their glory years, Olivier...just as the US has done. I suspect most of your indignation, though, has to do with the fact that we are on top for the moment...and you guys are not. Soon, China will edge us out as the top dog...and you will have to change your silly hatred and envy on to them.

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Neither France nor the UK ever denied sound scientific evidence about the future of mankind, just because a few petro-punks wanted to keep making Dow at the same rhythm as before, without a though for their social responsibility...

France and Great Britain did plenty of very reprehensible things during their glory years, Olivier...just as the US has done. I suspect most of your indignation, though, has to do with the fact that we are on top for the moment...and you guys are not.

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They are world predators, and they own your republic. They own you. That's why you speak like this: you're a good valet of your corrupt dominant class.

"They" is it?

I am not owned by anyone, Olivier...and I am in control of my self.

You, on the other hand, seem to be out-of-control.

Thanks for entertaining me with it!

I do so understand why nobody found Lee Siegel's article in the New Yorker to be interesting.

No substance whatsoever. Why am I not surprised?...

It took you this long?

Not sure I agree that this is such a new phenomenon.

There have been few, if any, events in American public life that match the ethical density of recent public controversies. This is hardly because life has become more ethically complicated. Rather, falling boundaries between private and public, an old morality increasingly muddled by new laws and new technology, and the dominance of a no-holds-barred media, have made moral conundrums that once never happened, or touched the lives of only a few people, the daily fare of millions.