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The American Desire To Apportion Blame

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You know every time that I turn on a screen I am confronted with the American desire to apportion blame. YouTube is full of vids raging against the machine. Ever since the late Robert Hughes identified America, as infected with the culture of complaint, this groundwave has continued to swell. Making something that you don’t like into a conspiracy has become a full time business. And yes, there are plenty of examples where this instinctive reaction is justified by the evidence compiled. It can, however, become a habitual response to everything in life that you don’t like.Continue Reading

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Maybe you just don’t have the time or the inclination. Everything is available as a video or podcast anyway, you reason. Are you too dumb to read? Or just too lazy? Consuming information via videos also means, in the main, that you have no reference for the source material underpinning what is claimed by the speakers in the video. Most YouTube videos do not include this reference material. This is just another way we are all being dumbed down by the convenience of technology. It is one of the reasons why we are having to deal with Donald Trump because dumb Americans voted him back in despite the plethora of evidence against him.Continue Reading