Reply #62: And my point is that those selling the lies, and those willingly accepting them are both Americans

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I would like to pretend that it is a simple case of ignorance and being misled, I honestly really do. But I can't, I can't give such a pass to a society which is not only willingly ignorant... but in some cases can display utter pride in their ignorance. And that is why I can't in good conscience give a pass to the majority of the American people.

I know people who grew up during the soviet years of the USSR. And one thing they told me was that the Russian population at large... knew Pravda was full of shit. No matter how much propaganda was spewed, there was an understanding that it was just that: propaganda. So I don't buy that Americans are misled due to the evils of propaganda (and by large the American MSM operates under a full on propagandist mode). Because people want to have that propaganda fed to them. People in this country want to believe they live in the bestest place on earth, regardless of how shitty their lives are. And that is why I don't think there is no worse blind than he or she who does not want to see. That is why I can't honestly pretend this is an "honest" ignorance or victimization.


Where you live, Canada, has an honest press. Not just because there is some sort of coincidence and so happens Canadian news outlets happen to not lie as much as American one out of sheer luck. Nope. They are honest, because Canadians expect and demand them to be so. Same goes for a plethora of issues, for example Canadians have a more human health care system because THEY worked for it. THEY forced their government to do the right thing. Now, there are issues every where else you go in the world. No place is perfect. But at some point responsibility dictates we need to take a good honest look at who we are. And a society supposedly made of good people in its majority, most definitively would not spend a decade long involvement in wars of choice killing untold amounts of innocent civilians, and thousands of troops in the process. Because regardless of how much propaganda they are fed, a society of mostly decent and compassionate human beings would not have allowed that. Period.

I commend you for having such a positive outlook on Americans. I wish I could too. :-(