Is the problem us or the goverment?

The problem is us. Look at how low the voter turn out is in elections. Look at how people blindly parrot what the media tells them. Look at how people think that the terrorists and enemy combatants have more rights than our citizens. Look at how the politically correct police have invaded every aspect of our lives...Look at how so much of our society idolizes Paris Hilton and can't name their Congressman or Senators.

Ouor society has lost our sense of the appropriate, and lost any idea of what is really important.

Good question. The short answer is both the people and the government are at fault.

1. The people, because they get complacent and believe whatever the government says. They become like sheep and become intellectual zombies (they think whatever the media/government wants them to think). They complain and don't do anything to fix the problem.

2. The government, because it's getting more corrupt and deceitful. The government tend to preserve it's power at the expense of the people. The government is getting bloated and inefficient and still getting bigger with all the beaurocratic layers and regulations added on year after year, and deficit spending growing year after year.

The constitution protects our freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean freedom from lies and deceit. The media will say whatever makes their ratings go up and make them profit. It's up to us to think for ourselves.

The first thing that Hitler and the Nazis did after seizing power was seize control of all media in the country. Josef Goebbels had a machine in place that enabled the Nazi state to become the factory efficient genocidal monster that History tells us it was.

Governments are by their very nature, brutal stupid entities that ruin people's lives.

Our privatized media and the small spectrum of opinion they endorse is a complete scandal.

Noam Chomsky and his work is an important beginning to understanding how filtered our media is and why they are trying to destroy the blogosphere.

The government is the problem. Any government is going to behave in a brutal stupid and arrogant manner while claiming to speak for and protect the people. It is only through constant pressure and eternal vigilance that this beast ever is brought under control.

And the media (especially news editors), although they never come out and say it, work very hard to keep this brutal stupid monster empowered and the public misinformed and fearful!

You should not get your news from the corporate media. That is what is so confusing.

I would hope you do your own research and find better sources that reflect your world view. SO, unless you ask specifically, i would rather not direct you in my own direction.

I will tell you though, there is a problem. All of this violence, all of this repression, unless the people go out to the streets and take back their government things are only going to get worst.

So pick up a history book and check the news. When the time comes to defend the oppressed, will you come out to defend them or will you be confused by the corporate media?

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Well because of the media most people will never know....we need some kind of uncensored media ran by the people for the people lol but even that would eventually wear off i guess =(

The media wants to tell us what to think and it succeeds with many people. I think everyone needs to realize that all members of the media have an agenda and we should make up our minds for ourselves. The sad thing is that most people are never going to figure it out.

POGO: "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

The education system and demands to conform force most into 'normalcy', many free thinkers are hunted down, or fall victim to excess, law enforcement, or other predators. But a few manage to cling to being basically good in a bigoted society. I do hope to survive, yet...

Natural selection, or Idiocracy?

The media are there for the benefit of their shareholders, and for the manipulation of public opinion. If you look on that 'enterprise' which is in reality FOR ENTERTAINMENT, you will be more able to cope with reality, avoiding excess, and harm to others.

The media gives us too many answers and not enough questions.

The government has some explaining to do, but I think it's about time that we turned off the TV and started thinking for ourselves.