When Did Americans Stop Looking At The Big Picture

[Perseid]

and focus instead on the little pictures?

What is shown on the news channels? What a joke.

Turn to sports channels? What a joke.

Watch the Lifetime and Hallmark channels for heartwarming stories about a world that no longer exists?

How about not watching television at all? What a revolutionary concept.

Does anyone read anymore? Can anyone spell words that a third grader would have problems with?

I am disappointed.

Are you?

[PretzelWarrior]

1. when the tech geeks invented picture in picture

[pinto]

2. I think most folks' world view is bounded by their own lives, to an extent.

Probably nothing new there...always has been that way, and it's not a bad thing.

Agree, though, that stepping outside the day-to-day is worth it.

I'm not disappointed.

[Beerboy]

3. Tee-vee sucks ass.

I'm not disappointed @ the moment.

[silverojo]

4. Do you have to make one-line paragraphs constantly?

Can't you develop a single thought beyond one line?

Do you have to keep asking questions with such obvious answers?

Don't you realize that you're making yourself sound as uneducated as you claim Americans are?

Anyway, here's your answer: Society went into the toilet as soon as schooling was dummied down for the boomers, Gen-X'ers, and each subsequent generation. You can't lower your standards for several generations, then expect the world to function as before.

End of story.

[tom_paine]

5. Not disappointed. We are just primates being primates and following

primate dictates and primate heirarchies.

Human beings haven't really changed in 10,000 years or more, and as we retrace the progress of civilization backwards over the next few centuries, that simple truth will become clearer and clearer with each passing year.

Denial, gullibility, fighting and fucking, these are some of the things that primates do.

Also, the science of psychology has given tyrannical Social Dominator primates their greatest tool ever for sturcturing their primate heirarchies:

The knowledge that, the LARGER a group of people/primates, the EASIER their actions rae to predict control and manipulate.

You might say that simpler rule, combined with media-techno saturation, is the pinnacle of what it is to be a primate.

[cali]

6. no. I'm not disappointed

Americans have been paddling in the shallows of culture for decades now.