Reply #15: I think it's Americans [View All]

I mean, everyone here has gone beyond the official media, right? We live in the same country as the Bush voters.

Americans don't want to be informed. They want to be comforted, placated, entertained, have their egos stroked. I'm involved in a local project in which we must convince our local government to give us soemthing they don't want to, and I am continually surprised by people on my own team who would rather have their egos stroked than make progress toward our goal.

I'm not saying the media isn't a factor, but we made them. If there was money in telling the truth, they'd tell it. There isn't because the average American doesn't want the truth.

I wish I knew what to do about it.