The body politic is more concerned with their bread and circus entertainment than anything else. Professional sports, American Idol, and the latest television series are the modern day opiate of the masses.
I used to think it was an escapist mentality. Not anymore. It is the limitation of their ignorance and their delusional stupor that has been programmed by their lack of a classical education.
The Average so-called American cannot understand Ron Paul. This typical waste of semen could not, in a million years, tell you who Locke, Rousseau, Hobbs, Aristotle, or Plato were, much less name their works or apply their ideas
in the formation of a Constitutional Republic.
Hell, most of them cannot tell you why we celebrate July 4th, much less the document that was signed on that date nor the country we fought against for our Independence.
I suspected vote fraud in IA. From what I have read it was rampant in NV.
Bottom line, Joe-six pack could not care less.
Good "Republicrats" could not care less.
Palmetto
I posted that wnd news story about Iran getting ready to nuke the US and Israel soon to my facebook and asked if it was true or just propaganda or a mix of both. A peer replied saying he though it was both but that he doesn't care if Iran nukes us or not. He openly admitted to having apathy toward whether it happened and that he was probably going to die anyway since he lives near a nuke-target anyway. (He's in Ak so no idea if that's true.) I told him that was sad and that he should care about his livelyhood and the things affecting it, and if he lived or died, but he still just doesn't care. And yet what DOES get him riled up is anti-gay stuff and his family's disapproval of his lifestyle, anti-Lady Gaga shit (he got SO MAD when I said I didn't like Gaga's music anymore), about anti Obama-care, and about how his landlord's cats are pissing all over the place.
But he doesn't care about his life or the state of his country.
I will admit I used to be like this, but strangely enough the more I got into the bible and the more I came to have a relationship with God and Christ, the more I cared about my life and my country and what was going on in it. When I was in freshman year of high school 9/11 happened and I just didn't give a crap, because I didn't understand it. I remember learning VERY LITTLE in HS and I know what it's like to be that kind of person. They should be prayed for, because if they don't wake up from their funk and start caring, nothing can be done for them, nothing can be said to them to spur them into action. Or even caring.
I agree completely with your post, even though I used to be - and sometimes still fight the attitude of - the kind of person you're talking about. I watched a movie called 180 on Youtube and was shocked to see how many people of MY age group who had NO idea who Hitler was or what the Holocaust was. They were even interviewing people around where I grew up!!
When Bush was elected, I remember also hearing a rumor that more people watched and voted in American Idol than they did for the presidential elections. I have no hope for our youth on its own. Only God can change us now, and if takes a disaster to wake people up, maybe that's for the best.
