Yep, the whole human psyche is broken.
This what you get when you allow ignorance to dominate, pander to the lowest common denominator and let market forces give people what they want, and not what they need.
As drugs are prohibited because they are damaging and costly to society, perhaps bad information and bad education should be treated the same way?
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
If you think acting on global warming is expensive, try not acting on it!
The media is the nervous system and information conduit for society, and it is almost terminally sick.
You speak truth about the present state of human affairs, but IMO that’s not the whole story.
Actually, it all goes back to the “worthiness” of the human species, if you recall a debate jimbills and I engaged in a while back. I have just finished reading The Third Horseman—it centers on the MWP and its impact, and examines the extremely complicated politics and socio-economic structure that existed over nearly a thousand years of history in Europe, with emphasis centered on the 1100-1350’s.
“Capitalism” and free markets seem to be something that appears whenever humans aggregate into groups, and the competition for resources, dominance, power, and “wealth” is in our genes. The big difference is that the effects of man’s “society” used to be localized. Now with AGW, we are threatening every living thing on the planet.
Forgive me, but I can’t describe and solve the world’s problems in a single comment! 🙂
The whole subject is the defining one of our time, brought into focus as we bump up against the sides of our little blue Petri dish.
Our genetically programmed and honed instincts worked well on an apparently limitless yet hostile planet, but now we have large tamed it and upset the balance, such drives are not now appropriate for life on a finite world.
How does one reprogram people to behave differently?
Nature likes to solve these problems using Natural Selection, but in this case it would remove those that least deserve to be deselected.
There has to be another way.
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I like Brian Williams and the NBC Nightly News better than all the other nightly news “infotainment” shows. So what if he embellished some of his personal “war stories” a bit? They are all playing the same game, as Maher outlines, and if Brian is such a sinner that he should be pilloried like this, then bolts of lightning should have fried Hannity and the Faux News crowd long ago and the earth should have opened up and swallowed Limbaugh.
Brian did NOT lie to us about the real news or substantial issues like foreign and domestic policy, defense, homeland security, etc. unlike our present leading Repugnants and our last president. If anyone needs to be suspended or fired…….. (a good cartoon that speaks to that).
Spot on, Bill!
Yep, spot on. But is it possible that not The News but the whole country is broken? The whole human race? What really “works” any more?
Just askin’
Yep, the whole human psyche is broken.
This what you get when you allow ignorance to dominate, pander to the lowest common denominator and let market forces give people what they want, and not what they need.
As drugs are prohibited because they are damaging and costly to society, perhaps bad information and bad education should be treated the same way?
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
If you think acting on global warming is expensive, try not acting on it!
The media is the nervous system and information conduit for society, and it is almost terminally sick.
You speak truth about the present state of human affairs, but IMO that’s not the whole story.
Actually, it all goes back to the “worthiness” of the human species, if you recall a debate jimbills and I engaged in a while back. I have just finished reading The Third Horseman—it centers on the MWP and its impact, and examines the extremely complicated politics and socio-economic structure that existed over nearly a thousand years of history in Europe, with emphasis centered on the 1100-1350’s.
“Capitalism” and free markets seem to be something that appears whenever humans aggregate into groups, and the competition for resources, dominance, power, and “wealth” is in our genes. The big difference is that the effects of man’s “society” used to be localized. Now with AGW, we are threatening every living thing on the planet.
Forgive me, but I can’t describe and solve the world’s problems in a single comment! 🙂
The whole subject is the defining one of our time, brought into focus as we bump up against the sides of our little blue Petri dish.
Our genetically programmed and honed instincts worked well on an apparently limitless yet hostile planet, but now we have large tamed it and upset the balance, such drives are not now appropriate for life on a finite world.
How does one reprogram people to behave differently?
Nature likes to solve these problems using Natural Selection, but in this case it would remove those that least deserve to be deselected.
There has to be another way.
I like Brian Williams and the NBC Nightly News better than all the other nightly news “infotainment” shows. So what if he embellished some of his personal “war stories” a bit? They are all playing the same game, as Maher outlines, and if Brian is such a sinner that he should be pilloried like this, then bolts of lightning should have fried Hannity and the Faux News crowd long ago and the earth should have opened up and swallowed Limbaugh.
Brian did NOT lie to us about the real news or substantial issues like foreign and domestic policy, defense, homeland security, etc. unlike our present leading Repugnants and our last president. If anyone needs to be suspended or fired…….. (a good cartoon that speaks to that).
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/12/1363685/-Brian-Williams-in-American-Liar?detail=email