Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

[PaulP]

I have just watched a commentator on YouTube discussing Americans and their lack of knowledge of world affairs. His comment was this " The majority of Americans in their lifetime will travel no farther than the states adjoining theirs. They have no interest in, and therefore no knowledge of, the rest of the world."

Scary.

Limited travel is just the start. There's a large subsection of that demographic that lives in an hermetically sealed, reality distortion field. They get all their knowledge from outlets like Fox News : news, entertainment, spiritual guidance, health and beauty tips etc all from one incredibly biased source. Hannah Arendt was quite right IMO. The first thing totalitarian movements do is cut people off from the real world. When you add to this the appalling state of US education, whether it be savage cuts to state schools, wealthy corporate donors at tertiary level, the religious right demanding Intelligent Design be taught instead of evolution etc.,  you really have to squint and pray to see any hope.