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  • Forget Red vs. Blue -- Its the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda | Media and Technology | AlterNet

    From the page: "We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based... more

    Reviewed by SurtyrFoesmasher Nov 12 2008, 10:18am ( 35 reviews ) • alternet.org

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  • Reviewed by JewishMotherInLa on Mar 25 2009, 2:32pm

    The saddest truth of all: Whichever route you take was, and still is, your choice.

  • Rated by thedcam on Mar 06 2009, 12:29pm

    True.

  • Rated by Ryuukuro on Jan 12 2009, 9:36am

    This is almost true. A big part of the problem is that the liberals (excuse me, the "educated") continue to look down on those who disagree with them and vice versa. And everybody is fooled by propaganda. THIS IS PROPAGANDA TOO. Everything in the media is, was, and always will be propaganda. Things will get better when we stop thumbing our noses at people and decide to be forward and honest and sincere without being snide or hateful.

  • Reviewed by jayveebee on Dec 14 2008, 6:49pm

    I don't think that this is an accident. I'm interested in how this came to be. I've heard that the cost of a college education is increasing, but I haven't heard whether the percentage of young people going to college has increased or decreased.

  • Rated by HouseMDfan on Dec 14 2008, 9:05am

    I agree very much with the overall tone. People are too blind.

  • Rated by bicokun on Dec 10 2008, 12:02pm

    To my knowledge, there's always been more stupid people than intelligent, apparently because the more intelligent people on average choose not to have children or to only have one or two. However, it does seem true that America at large looks down on those who are more mentally able and can actually prove it, instead choosing to glamorize those people who are closest to the lowest common denominator. I do like that this article doesn't make a partisan judgment, too. It would be easy to call the Republican Party on this, but the truth is that there are probably just as many Democrats who are blind followers, as well.

  • Reviewed by cirrostratus on Nov 21 2008, 8:17pm

    From the page: "Forget Red vs. Blue -- It's the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda" By Chris Hedges, Truthdig. Posted November 12, 2008. "Millions of Americans live in a non-reality-based belief system informed by childish cliches - they can barely differentiate between lies and truth. " "We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture. It cannot differentiate between lies and truth. It is informed by simplistic, childish narratives and cliches. It is thrown into confusion by ambiguity, nuance and self-reflection. This divide, more than race, class or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, has split the country into radically distinct, unbridgeable and antagonistic entities." "There are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation's population is illiterate or barely literate. And their numbers are growing by an estimated 2 million a year. But even those who are supposedly literate retreat in huge numbers into this image-based existence. A third of high school graduates, along with 42 percent of college graduates, never read a book after they finish school. Eighty percent of the families in the United States last year did not buy a book." ------------------------ The hard core stupids. They breed faster and they can damage in one term what it took generations to build.