11-25-2015, 05:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-25-2015, 05:40 PM by RolloTheGreat.)
It has long been my assumption that we (citizens) don't get to know 1/1000th of what the government knows, and for very good reason:
People (90% of them anyway) are far too stupid to see the big picture and would respond to the knowledge with hysteria and demands for ill advised knee jerk reactions. (E.G. Some Middle Eastern guys hijacked some planes, lets nuke the Middle East so this never happens again".)
In the case of the information, it would be more like, "The Klan/Al Quaeda/the IRA/the Black Panthers/Hells Angels/hillbillies/frat house has been observed to say they have ill intentions toward "us", we must act pre-emptively!".
Most people are just dumb asses. They know they like to drink, watch sports/reality tv, and have a vague idea how to do their jobs.
Asking them to decipher wide ranging geopolitical actions would be like asking most of them to sit down and knock out some calculus or quantum physics.
The media is either duped like the rest of us, or complicit in the deception for the greater good.
People (90% of them anyway) are far too stupid to see the big picture and would respond to the knowledge with hysteria and demands for ill advised knee jerk reactions. (E.G. Some Middle Eastern guys hijacked some planes, lets nuke the Middle East so this never happens again".)
In the case of the information, it would be more like, "The Klan/Al Quaeda/the IRA/the Black Panthers/Hells Angels/hillbillies/frat house has been observed to say they have ill intentions toward "us", we must act pre-emptively!".
Most people are just dumb asses. They know they like to drink, watch sports/reality tv, and have a vague idea how to do their jobs.
Asking them to decipher wide ranging geopolitical actions would be like asking most of them to sit down and knock out some calculus or quantum physics.
The media is either duped like the rest of us, or complicit in the deception for the greater good.