A Mindless America
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Category: News and Politics

My husband wrote the following.

A Mindless America  5/06/07

America is a nation of mindless twits who follow the latest line of mass media blurbs, commercial fashion fads, and celebrity nonsense with the same enthusiastic dedication and about as much intellectual capacity as 300,000,000 lemmings* headed over a cliff. Popular public opinion has no basis in fact, but only on media repetition.


Broadcast the same line over and over long enough, and the general population of America will follow suit in their thinking without bothering to decipher the facts themselves. They have heard it repeated so much on the tube, it must be true.

Bush is a lier? Of course he is. They heard it on TV.


Americans are now programmed to believe life is supposed to be easy. Therefore, easy equals, good, and difficult equals, bad. Good equals happiness, and bad equals....well, damned near everything problematic in one's life.


Today, we are told that depression can be considered a form of mental disability.

This kind of repetitious statement insinuates to viewers that if a person is not quite happy enough, they are possibly disabled to some level, or variable degree.

The key to political popularity in this country is to promise the mass of America's fat couch potatoes a happy, easy life, and at no particular expense to themselves. As more and more of this group are born, each less well educated than the last, they swallow the line as some kind of new gospel. Thinking for one's self is too much of a chore. Never mind that nothing comes free.

Let some other person pay. Right! Let some guy who has more than me pay my share. Why should I have to work hard to improve my station in life? Yeah right, let some rich guy do it. I just wanna watch tonight's episode of, "My Name Is Earl," while I have another, 'Bud.'


Get your face on TV enough, and you become a member of America's royal family. Who cares who you REALLY are. If you say it, they will believe it. Just try to make sure it's what your fans want to hear.



*Suicide myth

While many people believe that lemmings commit mass suicide when they migrate, this is not actually the case. Lemmings will often migrate in large groups and as a result some lemmings will occasionally be pushed off cliffs or drowned in bodies of water simply by the press of their compatriots.

The myth of lemming mass suicide is long-standing and has been popularized by a number of factors. It is usually stated that the main source of the belief in the suicide myth was propagated by The Walt Disney Company documentary White Wilderness which includes footage of  lemmings running head-long over a ledge. However, the filmmakers contrived this scene.

Due to their association with this odd behavior, lemming suicide is a frequently-used metaphor in reference to people who go along unquestioningly with popular opinion, with potentially dangerous or fatal consequences. This is the theme of the video game Lemmings, where the player attempts to save the mindlessly marching mammals from walking to their doom.