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I think it's a much larger condemnation of the latest perversion of the 'American Society' where people morn the jailing of 'pop tart' Paris Hilton and want to be 'just like Lindsay' and cook their brains with the best that Madison Avenue and the corporate enhanced boob tube has to offer.
We ARE a nation of ignorant and intolerant ignoramuses and here's a bit if news: The rest of the world knows it.
As Peter Gabriel said in the intro his song 'The Barry Williams Show' in concert a few years ago, 'people used to think they are what they eat, or they are what they wear or what they drive. I believe we are what we watch.'
Ahhh, the glow of a corporate America. Full of Shiny Happy (and ignorant) People...
Her panic is obvious. Our revulsion of the perversion of our once valued educational system that now seeks to label evolution a theory and religious superstition as fact and the shift of schools from public institutions that are answerable to the public to educational factories that turn out 'test takers' rather than sentient human beings with inquisitive minds should be evident, like political leadership from the opposition party...
