Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Dumb and Dumber

It might be Christmas but all I have heard for the past few days is how Kevin is all at sea because the Copenhagen conference was apparently a failure.

Not that anyone actually making those comments knows dip sh*t about climate politics or how the world works - its just that they read the Murdoch press, watch the farce that is commercial television and form opinions based on a *numbnut* view of the world that is pushed by the extreme right wing view ports.

This is a sad and sorry situation. It seems that our entire population can't work out for themselves that they are being fed BS. And so they parrot the last thing that they heard or read or observed - from our media.

If there was one thing that I would change about our nation it is the rubbish media. Aside from the fact that it has adopted a blatant right wing agenda that masquerades as news and information - It is simply a poor informer and entertainer.

I try to ignore it but many Australian's live for the crap that appears on commercial television after 9pm. What is that about?

Mostly it's because they don't understand why or how they are being manipulated.

And the reality is that it all boils down to the fact that our State Governments have neglected their various education systems for 30+ years.

if the state based education system worked as advertised then our people would have mostly progressed beyond year 10 and be able to understand what is going on around them. They would be able to question the rubbish that is pushed at them and be curious about the world - they would have the capacity to do things other than point a remote control at the idiot box.

But that is a conversation that we should have had 30+ years ago - sorry but it's now far too late to fix the problem.

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