We've
been living in Canada for about seven months. There are serious
environmental and social issues on the table up here. The Conservative
government, led by Stephen Harper, is as scary as any group of
conservatives anywhere.
But ...
There is no nationally televised crazy up here. Not even a little bit.
Starting 25 miles south of where I'm typing this "crazy" is institutionalized. The familiar has become normal and the normal is crazy.
Have you
ever watched a FOX News program from start to finish? I can't. I tried a
couple of times to watch Bill O'Reilly, or Glen Beck when he was on,
but I could never make it to the first commercial break. It hurt my head
too much. Ten minutes of FOX and I'm yelling at my television in pain
and outrage.
I used to work at a cable television company in Los Angeles. The Public Access channel pumped out some of the weirdest programs imaginable but it was okay because the only people who watched them were the people who produced the weirdness in the first place. The crazy was contained. But FOX and their mouthpieces aren't broadcasting their gibberish on public access channels or short-wave radio stations from some garage. They're main-lining crazy directly into Americans' brains. 16 years of FOX and 24 years of Rush Limbaugh have turned millions of Americans into people who literally don't know right from wrong.
Forget E pluribus unum. I suggest we go with Non compos mentis. It'll come in handy in case there's ever a trial.
But ...
There is no nationally televised crazy up here. Not even a little bit.
Starting 25 miles south of where I'm typing this "crazy" is institutionalized. The familiar has become normal and the normal is crazy.
I used to work at a cable television company in Los Angeles. The Public Access channel pumped out some of the weirdest programs imaginable but it was okay because the only people who watched them were the people who produced the weirdness in the first place. The crazy was contained. But FOX and their mouthpieces aren't broadcasting their gibberish on public access channels or short-wave radio stations from some garage. They're main-lining crazy directly into Americans' brains. 16 years of FOX and 24 years of Rush Limbaugh have turned millions of Americans into people who literally don't know right from wrong.
Forget E pluribus unum. I suggest we go with Non compos mentis. It'll come in handy in case there's ever a trial.
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