YOU WON'T HAVE THE FOCUS TO READ THIS

TODAY'S NY TIMES: "Unchecked use of digital devices, he says, can create a culture in which students are addicted to the virtual world and lost in it."

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I see this as part of diabolical plan:

1.Cut education so that people are too stupid to vote in their own best interests but happy to vote for corporate interests who have spent enough dough to win hearts and minds. As they did in the recent mid-terms, where the nonsensical tea party gained a foothold. These "grass roots" health care reform protesters were actually out in the streets holding signs that they'd printed out from websites run by insurance company lobbyists! CHECK!

2.Bombard kids with so much sh(t that it's much tougher for them to concentrate even if the crap educational system didn't already leave them disengaged. (Let's not mention their complete lack of charm and ability to make an actual...GASP...phone call.) And if we're all addled by ADD, we can't possibly focus on anything as complex as immigration, tax or health care reform. CHECK!

3.Get people so wrapped in junk-filled, tabloid culture that they readily choose these easily digestible tidbits over anything which involves taxing their pea brains. Hence, we know every worthless detail about Jennifer Anuston and Brad Pitt or Snooki but can't understand a bum deal which we signed which has our home being foreclosed on. And we can't tax our brains with dissecting the issues threatening to destroy our prosperity, but we can list every fake challenge on Drag Race, Project Runway, American Idol, America's Top Model and Dancing With The Stars. Even though the competition isn't real and is totally manipulated for entertainment, we sit and root for these phony challenges while our jobs go to foreign countries courtesy of corporations which our "broke" government gives tax breaks for outsourcing them. CHECK!

4.Have the most right wing Supreme Court ever kill restrictions on the amount of corporate donors can give to campaigns. That way corporations can afford to bombard us with so many lies that we start to believe them. And we're already disoriented, so HAY, GURL! CHECK!

5.To protect their interests, have the corporations develop such convenient technology that we can't live without it. (I'm aware of the irony involved in me sharing my thoughts on facebook, which totally has me hooked.) That way, we might hear that AT&T funded the insane tea party, but there's no way we can give up our iphones so we don't really care that we're enriching the enemies of our own civil rights! Oh girl! Just change your middle name on facebook to Equality and hand AT&Tea the gun to shoot you in the face with. Oh wait! Can I buy you bullets for that gun, too? I can't live without grindr! CHECK!

6.As if that weren't enough, have AT&Tea fund the end of net neutrality so that the enemy is controlling the information that we do receive. Lazy, distracted and ignorant, we wouldn't know where to turn or how to find it if we did suddenly sense that something was very, VERY wrong or..GASP..start to care. Caring? About our own situations? Form thoughts of our own? Dissect something? No, that Bunny's crazy. Let me tune her out. CHECK!

END RESULT: The stupidest, most short-circuited generation of Americans to date. And you thought the last couple of generations were off! CHECK!

A far-out, diabolical plan...or mission accomplished?

HERE'S A FASCINATING INTERVIEW FROM GRIT TV WHICH TOUCHES ON THE SAME TOPIC. IT'S LONG, BUT VERY INFORMATIVE NEWS WITH NO COMMERCIALS!



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