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As many of us have speculated over the past 7 years, Karl Rove did a bang-up job of creating weapons of mass distraction to offset the serious implications mounted or created by this administration. And as we also all know, Rove is now a Washington outsider whose influence still is pervasive in the Bush administation.
Remember Josef Goebbels, the head of Hitler's propaganda machine? There are very few fundamental differences between what Hitler expected from Goebbels and what Bush expected from Rove. Some might argue that point, but it's relevant--over the past 7 years, distractions from the truth have been mounted week after week, day after day--in essence, the overwhelming number of lies and distractions has made many sufferers of burnout. In the "information age" it is difficult to concentrate on all the material that presents itself, so we only see what they want us to see sometimes.
We are bombarded on all signs of petty tales, amusing anecdotes, irrelevant stories that hide the deeper--the most wicked deeds and crimes are cloaked in such mire that the real problems quickly get away from us.
We know all this, and yet we continue to take the bait. We know it's impossible to spend all our time thinking about all the real issues, so instead we change our focus and lose sight of the things we should be thinking of.
On a recent episode of TDS, the scandall filled administration was the subject of discussion--Jon pointed out that we tend to push aside all the reality of these scandals just as Pavlov's dogs were distracted from their tasks. There is little wonder: there are on average 1 new scandal a week, sometimes 2, which makes the treason of these people mindboggling, and something quite difficult to grasp in its entirety.
Day after day, I see many DUers caught in the web of attention grabbing headlines--in order to feel that they are "caught up" on topics, they find brand new bones to pick, and they sublimate the old headlines. No human being is capable of doing what some dogs do: grabbing something with their teeth and not letting go. It's not humanly possible to keep that sort of concentrated mindset on as many things which infiltrate our minds.
I wish we could. I wish we could set up layers and layers of scnadals and issues in our brain, in such a way to emulate an onion, but the human brain can only wrap itself around a few things at a time--perhaps somewhere else in our evolution it will happen, but not right now. Before the instaneous glut of information from the "information age" humans were never exposed to this much news and discussion on a constant level. We are in a time when we need to decide what we need to hear and what we deem important to our own existence, and let someone else tackle another issue.
Instead of trying to understand every individual piece of information that passes through our hands, we need to make daily, perhaps even hourly, choices of what we need and want to discuss, and realize that it is impossible to do it any other way.
Perhaps ignoring such distractions as what Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton are doing or saying, we can focus on something else--some topic which burns inside as a great passion. In my own life, animals have always been important to me, and therefore, I need to discuss them--the Michael Vick scandal was one I talked about extensively, for example.
Let's face it--they're going to do all they can to get us lost in the accumulating pile of scandals and topics that they have created--we need to rise above all the crap and refocus on what is important to us.
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