In my view propagandized media has broken the minds of even the most reasonable, well-meaning Americans.
People fail to realize how filtered their general information has been for generations at this point. In order for any semblance of democracy to work, there needs to be a way to objectively agree on some basic foundation of reality.
After decades of misinformation about even the simplest of things, intellectual discourse as a people has become nearly impossible. Nuance is a four letter word. It's as if the ability to philosophically reason at all has been bred out of the majority of the population.
And so now, facing some of the most dire circumstances this nation has ever faced (in my view at least), there aren't nearly enough people asking even the right questions, much less in any position to offer solutions. Most of us don't even grasp who their enemies truly are, and so we swipe desperately, blindly in the darkness hoping to somehow protect ourselves.
It's a crazy-making situation for anyone paying attention - and it only seems to get crazier. I spend an exorbitant amount of time trying to sift through the noise to find a kernel of truth and the more I learn, the less I seem to understand.
