What's wrong with America in a simple realization...

[hornadylnl]

More people can tell you how many yards Peyton Manning threw for or how many td catches Reggie Wayne had than could tell you who our Secretary of State is. I think that is the largest reason our local and federal politicians are involved in looting the taxpayers to pay for this crap. They know people will be distracted by the sports and not pay attention to what is really going on.

I can enjoy a good game like anyone else but I put it in perspective. I used to get on the Indy Star colts board and rip on the idiots who wanted the new Lucas Oil stadium for stealing my tax dollars for their pleasure. They don't care because they personally benefit from it. I railed on the city and the Colts for using iminent domain to steal Hurst's property. They don't care because they are getting what they want. They don't care that their pleasure comes at the cost of someone else's freedoms. These people make up the majority of our population so we are hosed.

Our politicians use sports and celebrities like the Romans used the gladiators. They distract the people while Rome is burning. I believe our country is lost and will never return. If your average so called citizen sees nothing wrong with stealing the property of someone for someone else's benefit, how can we reverse that?

[Chefcook]

Originally Posted by hornadylnl

More people can tell you how many yards Peyton Manning threw for or how many td catches Reggie Wayne had than could tell you who our Secretary of State is. I think that is the largest reason our local and federal politicians are involved in looting the taxpayers to pay for this crap. They know people will be distracted by the sports and not pay attention to what is really going on.

I can enjoy a good game like anyone else but I put it in perspective. I used to get on the Indy Star colts board and rip on the idiots who wanted the new Lucas Oil stadium for stealing my tax dollars for their pleasure. They don't care because they personally benefit from it. I railed on the city and the Colts for using iminent domain to steal Hurst's property. They don't care because they are getting what they want. They don't care that their pleasure comes at the cost of someone else's freedoms. These people make up the majority of our population so we are hosed.

Our politicians use sports and celebrities like the Romans used the gladiators. They distract the people while Rome is burning. I believe our country is lost and will never return. If your average so called citizen sees nothing wrong with stealing the property of someone for someone else's benefit, how can we reverse that?

You sir speak words of truth, I concur completely... How can we reverse that? Unfortunately like Rome it will probably have to burn... The next few years will be nothing more than prolonging the inevitable. Unless somehow we could get 4 or 5 million men together all in one place willing to go to any length and sacrifice anything and everything to make the change. These men would have to march on Washington D.C. and sit on it holding it in their mercy without possibility of retreat to the last man for as long as it takes...

Unfortunately this isn't going to happen, because the fact is a person will not change until the pain of remaining the same outweighs the pain of the change. The powers that be, know this as fact so therefore they will continue to pacify the general populace until its too late. To be perfectly honest they may have already succeeded... The fall of the united States will go down as the largest theft of money and property ever to occur in earths history, as the wealth of our nation continues to evaporate into thin air...

[hornadylnl]

It's been raining here most of the day. I guess it's fitting as there isn't much worth celebrating anymore.

[danmdevries]

My revelation is tied to the Jackson story as well. I just finished an intro to American history course at school since somehow I overlooked it in the last 7 years as one of my major required classes. While in that class there was a picture on the screen for the powerpoints. It was a copy of a newspaper from 50 years ago.

Looking over that picture which I requested the prof email me, I noticed something was noticeably absent from the front page. There was not one single mention of ANYTHING entertainment related. It was the news. There was a blurb about a senate vote on a bill, there was something about violence at a civil rights demonstration, a message from the governor, short business news. In each of the articles another part was strange to me; the wording seemed neutral, just the facts. The writers didn't seem to have a desire to sway the reader one way or the other with the wording.

I do have to admit that this newpaper was not sensational or entertaining to read, but it made me think. Next week in the morning when you get your paper off your door step, take notice of how many entertainment stories are right there on the front page. Take note of the wording in the articles. I get two newspapers every day, the Gary post and Hammond Times or whatever they're called now. They're jammed full of stories that are not at all relevant to my life. I don't own a TV so I can't comment on newscasters, though I think it would be safe to assume it isn't much different there.

Americans have become entertainment driven. They've lost sense of reality through the destruction of family, values of humanity, moral guidance. The ones that get ahead are the ones that step on their friends, not the ones that are held up by their friends for having sound decision making models and judgement. What we understand to be a typical American was very atypical not too far in history.

[Scout]

Originally Posted by danmdevries

Looking over that picture which I requested the prof email me, I noticed something was noticeably absent from the front page. There was not one single mention of ANYTHING entertainment related. It was the news. There was a blurb about a senate vote on a bill, there was something about violence at a civil rights demonstration, a message from the governor, short business news. In each of the articles another part was strange to me; the wording seemed neutral, just the facts. The writers didn't seem to have a desire to sway the reader one way or the other with the wording.

I'll agree with this. "News" has become another entertainment source.

[tk6968]

Excelent observation. Sad comment on America, but so true.