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We are being bombarded by violent stuff on our TV screens. The typical kid by age 16 has seen some 15,000 simulated murders or some such per my recollection. Such obsession with ratings in both news and entertainment stuff does things to people. There is no distinction drawn between fact and fantasy. Iraq is not real -- even the pictures of the naked bodies are screened in part. Yuk! Best, Ed
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Ed and others: This is a national disgrace. What is perplexing are how so many can defend this system even in the face of such obvious evidence and and all examples and when some people hear about them, it is as if they lived in some other universe. Either they are shocked and surprised or they simply find some reason to excuse this behavior. When I listened to all those calls coming in on C-Span a few days ago after the news of torture broke in the media I found the statements incredulous. And the lack of compassion was even more stark and revealing, I suppose, about our national psychy which almost seems surreal.
I've asked you this before Ed. Why and how did we get to this point? We're probably among the most patriotic people and we think we're better but there are too many examples/incidences which demonstrate otherwise. Just read William Blum's books on how many times we intervene for our own interests and the collateral effects is the destruction of life and promulgation of pain and suffering. Why would we even have to ask why they hate us?
Michael Moore asks the same thing when he did Bowling for Columbine: What makes us so violent? But what also makes so many of us so insensitive? To bring up Fromm again: What is normal here is insane.
Hank
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