The collective American mind is the problem, not American stupidity

Third of all, except for our Civil War/War between the States/War of Northern Agression or whatever you want to call it, Americans have never had war on their soil. We simply don't know what it's like, so who can blame us for being ignorant of the costs of war? Europeans can gloat all they want that they are too smart or too self-righteous that they want no part of US Imperialism--I'd rather never have had to live through the series of wars they'd had to put up with, starting with the Thirty Years War in the 1600s.

Finally, it just so happened that America is an empire precisely at that point in history that a media hell bent on brainwashing its people can do it so well. I have stated many times in various columns that the present-day ability to brainwash the public was not begun in Hitler's Germany but on the eve of World War One by President Wilson's propaganda department, aided and abetted by behavioral psychologists and good ol' American advertizing know-how. That is, the notion of brainwashing came from the US before the 1920s. So, I have been right all along in blaming the media for American "stupidity".

For further reading:

http://www.counterpunch.com/brasch042520...
Walt Brasch: The shock and awe of American ignorance

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?typ...
Critic accuses US media of aiding war propaganda by David Morgan

The critic? Harper's publisher John MacArthur. The most irresponsible news source? The New York Times, for consistently giving the case for war using phony evidence all the while trying to appear "balanced". A circus, but not very serious, is how he described FOX News.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/new...
Did our leaders lie to us? Do we even care?

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-w...
Are we dumb or just numb? by Robert Scheer
(Note: You must register with LA Times to read this article.)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaff...
Your survival may depend on your integrity

Only the individual can defeat fascism

http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=1...
< The silencing of dissent on graduation day by Chris Hedges

How the author of "War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning" was silenced by the graduates and crowd during his commencment speech at Rockford College in Illinois. Apparently some Americans love fascism more than others.

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