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Boobus Americanus -- Where's The Money?
The under-informed, uninvolved, often inebriated and occasionally high Americans Mikael Blaisdell has so elegantly described as boobus Americanus were made that way by an unrelenting media-driven political anarchy in which only that which is obsessive, prurient, or over the top is deemed of sufficient interest to warrant air-time.
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America’s Migration From Sustainable Values To Situational Ethics
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Today’s Americans appear to believe they have the inalienable right to be entertained, propositioned and endlessly opportuned. Television whether network or cable accordingly does its best to deliver what we want. Ever wonder what it is they give us?
18 minutes of commercials per hour.
Dramatized news.
Fake music.
Pedantic plots.
Sports programming in which the game is largely concealed behind a mask of hype, mindless testosterone, and gesticulation as if the equivalent of thought.
Big Media, especially those that communicate information electronically, are skilled at delivering the drivel and mind-numbing content. We accept what they dish-out — adroitly intertwined with commercial content to monetize our national appetite for violence, sex, conflict, manufactured obsession, and voyeurism.
Thus an ignorant nation is held hostage by single stakeholder values that favor dollars over all else. The good news is that our media are highly profitable today. The bad news is we’re an ignorant nation seeking to know less even as we demand more things, toys and pleasures.
The typical television station operator returns over 30% of top line revenue while delivering nearly 8 hours of commercials seven days a week while telling the American nation very little it doesn’t want to hear.
More often than not, the polling organizations that big-media engages to ascertain our likes and dislikes overtly simplify complex issues in favor of pithy one liners. Take, for example, recent polls that re-affirm all-time low approval ratings for Congress, the President, and politicians of every persuasion.
Are such polls relevant — let alone probative of something meaningful? Or are they simply part of big-media’s misappropriation of American reality?
The festering problems of failed leadership and dysfunctional governance in Washington today are unparalleled in American history.
The under-informed, uninvolved, often inebriated and occasionally high Americans Mikael Blaisdell has so elegantly described as boobus Americanus were made that way by an unrelenting media-driven political anarchy in which only that which is obsessive, prurient, or over the top is deemed of sufficient interest to warrant air-time.
All of which raises a troubling question.
What does it mean when pollsters ask what is possibly the least well informed generation of Americans questions along the lines of “Is the U.S. Going in the right direction?”
Such a question has only one rational answer in today’s polarized and polarizing political debate — and it’s hell no!
The surprise is that only four out of five Americans seem willing to say so.
What are the others thinking?
Just our ongoing wars and near depression level unemployment would seem to warrant 100% polling numbers.
Add in criminality by and among bankers, the prostitution of young men and women athletes by the powerful cartel that now runs major collegiate and professional sporting enterprises, and you’ve only begun to identify what have become egregious, systemic flaws in American society.
Ask anyone over the age of 30 and you’ll get an earful of condemnation, blame and nascent fear about what is yet to come.
What one does not hear is anything specific.
Or non-political.
For as a nation we remain conflicted — confounded by own own pervasive ignorance and growing inability to articulate what’s really wrong — and ought to be done about it.