Reg:

Orwellian Doublespeak = O'Reilly No Spin Zone

Unbiased fact?

Like I said Reg, the current state of the American Mind is pathetic and sad.

For those of you to whom I am referring --- the pathetic and sad --- you know who you are!!

Such people wouldn't know REAL TRUTH even if it bit them on the ass!

The phenomenal author and philosopher ROBERT ANTON WILSON had this to say about the Current State of the American Mind:

"I blame [the Current State of the American Mind] on the churches and the ignorance of the public at large. The major thing you should learn in any decent education is how to judge and evaluate new sources of information. If I say to you 'the people in the next apartment are all Zebra-striped and they fly around three feet off the ground,' how are you going to judge and evaluate that? One way: does it sound PLAUSIBLE to you?

Another way is: how honest do you think I am?

Anad there are lots of other ways. But most people have no standards of evaluation at all to judge between something that's plausible, something that's totally impossible, something that's possible but not probable, and something that's probable but not yet proven.

They don't have those distinctions because any teacher in the United States who's caught trying to teach children how to judge statements LOGICALLY . . . immediately the whole school board, all the parents, and especially the local clergy come down on his or her case and he or she gets fired, thrown out on their ass, and has to find work in another field.

So of course, nobody has any standards how to judge whether Martians are in the White House or if General Motors owns the President or whether there are fetuses of extraterrestrials at Fort Bragg; they have no standard by which to judge.

So, they judge by whomever they heard speak most recently, 'Oh, that must be the truth, I just heard it five minutes ago.' They don't have an attention span that goes more than ten minutes and that's because they've never been taught how to use their brains. I used to advertise my seminars as 'How To Use Your Brain For Fun And Profit.' These days most people don't even know how to use it for fun, much less how to use it for profit." --- ROBERT ANTON WILSON

I think that about sums up the problem very succinctly.

Also, I think that some level of pride is disallowing some people to admit that this quote speaks of them.

However, what I have been POUNDING MY HEAD AGAINST THE WALL trying to figure out is WHY THE HELL ANYONE WOULD TAKE PRIDE IN BEING STUPID?!?!?!?

P n' P = KDB Source - Disinformation: The Interviews (pg. 18)

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