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"The Web" isn't making America stupid --- "Stupidity" is making everyone stupid.
That is ... people have lost the capacity .. the ability .. to process information intelligently; the Age of Intellectualism having seemed to have croaked long ago. That was an Era (in science, philosophy & politics) when information, ideas, prejudices, and so on went through a lifetime of testing one's preconceived prejudices. No more. The cowardly Right listens to their Own Kind as the cowardly Left listens soley to their Own Kind. Critical Thinking as an Art is dead.
When strife pops up in say Pakistan or the Middle East, the Freethinker ought to zap themselves into newspapersDOTcom and read both the Jerusalem Post alongside any of the Islamic jounals provided.
Alongside his hometown paper he or she ought to subscribe to BOTH weeklies 'LIBERAL OPINION WEEKLY' and 'THE CONSERVATIVE CHRONICLE" to guage intelligently all opinions in the debate. To rely SOLEY on leftwing or rightwing media outlets (e.g. "The Factor", "Democracy Now").
Otherwise the Thinker has relegated his or her ability to understand Anything --- suddenly finding themselves to be at the very same level of Thinking that pollutes the Mindset of the KKK or Jihadists. (yeah, yeah ... its the other guy who's wrong)
And loosen-up all Ye Dimthinkers --- don't get so agitated about the Rosie O'Donnels & Ann Coulters of the airwaves --- the webways --
Their day-jobs are to Poke Needles into the Eyes of America's Dullards. If your Eye is poked by either one, then you Absolutely Deserved to be Poked.
They're "Entertainers" !! Showmen on the Political Stage --- admission free.
The Paranoids who desire to muzzle Rosie are Mirror Images of the same Cretins who wish to muzzle Coulter.
