To: GST who wrote (36224 ) 8/21/2011 3:50:29 PM From: bull_dozer 8 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to When the history of the dumbing down of American is finally written, the Tea Party will finally be recognized for their special brand of 'leadership'. The Tea Party is the anti Party -- anti education, anti science, anti tax, anti common sense. Taxation in America is completely screwed up -- unfortunately, the Tea Party has nothing whatsoever to offer in the way of fixing it. AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM? By Joe Bageant If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions of our times. Such as: How can the Americans remain so consistently brain-fucked? Much of the world, including plenty of Americans, asks that question as they watch U.S. culture go down like a thrashing mastodon giving itself up to some Pleistocene tar pit. Cultural ignorance of one sort or another is sustained and nurtured in all societies to some degree, because the majority gains material benefit from maintaining it. Americans, for example, reap huge on-the-ground benefits from cultural ignorance -- especially the middle class Babbitry -- from cultural ignorance generated by American hyper-capitalism in the form of junk affluence. Uh, don't look now, but the banksters own your ass, your country has become a work gulag/police state and the most of the world hates you. joebageant.com
