tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19609007.post7185794902911655565..comments2023-10-30T01:32:53.843-07:00Comments on Should We Talk About the Weather?: My Crappy CountryMitch Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933712759882704052noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19609007.post-88427783005469326752008-11-10T13:29:00.000-08:002008-11-10T13:29:00.000-08:00I'm coming to the conclusion that we will have to ...I'm coming to the conclusion that we will have to accept that people will be kept ill-informed by the corporate media and we will do little about climate change until it's too late....and then the shock doctrine will kick in and the powerful will simply use any emergency to secure control of what they want. <BR/><BR/>The only obstacle to this is democracy....and that requires and informed, awake and thinking citizenry. <BR/><BR/>About 15% of the citizenry is awake and alert....the rest snooze on and are easy meat for the manipulators who want to use their collective ignorance to further their own aims and interests. <BR/><BR/>As long as people can continue to get away with not thinking, this situation will not change. <BR/><BR/>By the time it changes, it will be too late. <BR/><BR/>There is not much intelligent life on Earth and we have successfully dumbed down much of what could have been intelligent.Steve Withershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105201164365536942noreply@blogger.com