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Originally Posted by evman150
Where are people like this today? Can you imagine the United States today if people like Jefferson and George Washington and Thomas Paine ruled throughout its history? If clear ideas, progress and free-thinking reigned supreme over Bush and Reagan's regressive "family values" based in fundamentalist Christianity? One can dream.
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Great point. Maybe the easy access to information is the double-edged sword partly behind this. The media thrives on getting attention and selling airtime/papers, thus whomever is most 'media friendly' has the best chance to get elected to office. The intellectuals are useless unless they have a great amount of charisma. I kind of think this is the cause of the growing evangelical brand of human beings, whose closed minds are increasingly influencing government policy.
Society would be much better if journalism actually adhered to ethics and principles, rather than mindlessly airing stories about Spear's latest binge, or some windbag's opinion on why Liberals/Conservatives are the scum of the earth.
