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Dylan had at least part of it right. Let us pray he had it all right in the end. This article has certainly given me pause because of the scandalous, lunatic atmosphere which has evolved recently. It's not bad enough that we are a people obsessed with things we shouldn't even know, but that we are willing to pay the price both in terms of cash and of pain to be on either end of this fork which has prongs on either end and a handle (the media) in the middle.
How proud we must be that not only are we free to violate the privacy of people who are "protected" by money and fame, but that the criminal element in our government is happy to continue committing crimes in the name of God and country while we waste our precious few brain cells digesting this crap that is peddled to us as relevant.
Somewhere people are dying and our nation is suffering from root rot, but we are too busy practicing our "Somebody's worse than me!" routine to pay any serious time or attention to the truly terrible things going on around us.
It's times like this when I feel especially grateful for Salon, where the majority of participants at least care about causes with meaning, even if they sometimes lose grasp of their critical thinking skills and common decency in the process (see the first letter in this thread).
We are an interesting species, that's for sure.
