Andrea Yates verdict - huh?

[kandrathe]

Hi,
There is a big difference, though. Ignorant idiots watching bad television, and the television industry that panders to them, has no impact on me. There's enough good television, movies, books, games, etc. that I can ignore the crap preferred by the room temperature IQs.

But when the officials elected by those same ignorant idiots pass laws and establish policies, then I cannot avoid them. I have to carry my passport on my trips to Canada. And the nonsense at the border causes me to reduce the number of those trips, and thus to eat excellent Greek food less often. The two plus hours of getting through security at the Airport means that flying from Seattle to Vancouver is no longer a viable option. Driving is cheaper and faster. And those are the pin pricks. The cost of supporting a useless war propagated by lies and engendered to make some rich people richer is an insult to the nation. And the encroachment on the civil liberties of the population at large in order to make them behave more in line with the principles of the most superstitious and ignorant of our population is nothing more than defecation on the principles this country was founded on.

So, while both our popular entertainment and our government institutions are the lowest form of crap, only the government can force us to wallow in it.

--Pete

I hear you. My commentary was on the similiarity of process rather than the significance of the burden. I would offer then that perhaps our popular entertainment and our government institutions are the lowest form of crap, because of the preferences of room temperature IQ's and those who through apathy tolerate the status quo. In the context of "government by the people, for the people" we are getting what we collectively deserve, and from what I can deduce it is due to a lack of people demanding a better democracy resisting those constant forces of both mediocrity and capitalism.



I bet the "God Warrior" votes. Also, to your first point that "Springer TV" does not touch you, don't you think that by rooting through the garbage of our society and presenting it on TV it changes people perceptions of normal? I am very embarassed for America by some of the human refuse that is unearthed here and paraded on TV. The pendulum has swung pretty far from the unrealistic "Leave it to Beaver" world, but at least media like that presented a role model that was uplifting and positive.