[Peace-discuss] What Carl's highly AWARE average American will be watching at the movie theater this weekend...

[Morton K. Brussel]

If Americans are inherently different politically (more apathetic or  
ignorant) from the French, Scandinavians, Italians, Germans, English,  
Russians, etc., how has that come to be? Or is it that all those are  
equally ignorant or apathetic? Is it just that our culture is  
deficient, or is it just that our political system (including  
education and media) has essential defects? Are all masses equally  
asses?

--mkb


On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:26 PM, John W. wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:54 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu>  
> wrote:
>
> The American ruling class is as alive to the danger that democracy  
> poses as their ancestors who drafted the anti-democratic  
> constitution of 1787 were. (See, e.g., the famous 1975 Trilateral  
> Commission study, The Crisis of Democracy -- the crisis being that  
> there was too much democracy around, growing out of the '60s.)
>
> And it's no accident that the media (including film) are as asinine  
> and stupefying as they are.  (See, e.g., Frances Stonor Saunders'  
> wonderful book about how the CIA spent a great deal of money to  
> dumb down culture -- The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World  
> of Arts and Letters.)
>
> But if one wanted to disparage democracy, one of the best ways to  
> do it would be to convince people that all around them were fools  
> and poltroons. --CGE
>
> It's been convincingly demonstrated in many quarters, Carl, that  
> democracy only works if you have an engaged and reasonably educated  
> populace.  Americans may be educable in the fundamentals of  
> democracy, but they haven't yet demonstrated that they're  
> particularly interested in it.
>
> Enjoy Hellboy II.
>
>
>
> n.dahlheim at mchsi.com wrote:
>
> John,
>
>   I just cannot help but think that the masses really are asses...  
> Doesn't the entertainment just become more asanine and  
> stupeifying?  The culture just continues its inexorable and  
> continued decline....
>
>     Best,
>     Nick
>
>
> ----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
> From:    "John W." <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
> To:      Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] What Carl's highly AWARE average American  
> will be watching at the movie theater this weekend...
> Date:    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:01:26 +0000
>
> Ooops....it's that damned conspiracy of the media to manufacture  
> consent
> again!!!  :-(
>
>
>
> *Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)*
>
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