Does anybody give a shit!?
We've got villages being wiped out in Afghanistan so that an oil company can build a pipeline through it. A child is dying every minute of hunger. The Earth is being poisoned by chemicals and electromagnetic slurry... but all people are talking about is Peter and Jordan!
and
and
This is the most interesting bit:
Experience has proven that the simplest method of securing a silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to keep the public undisciplined and ignorant of basic systems principles on the one hand, while keeping them confused, disorganized, and distracted with matters of no real importance on the other hand.
This is achieved by:
(1) Disengaging their minds, sabotaging their mental activities, by providing a low quality program of public education in mathematics, logic, systems design, and economics, and by discouraging technical creativity.
(2) Engaging their emotions, increasing their self-indulgence and their indulgence in emotional and physical activities, by:
(a) unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and emotional rape) by way of a constant barrage of sex, violence, and wars in the media - especially the T.V. and the newspapers.
(b) giving them what they desire - in excess - "junk food for thought" and depriving them of what they really need.
Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.
Keep the public entertainment below a sixth grade level.
(I'm going to copy this to the main site actually.)