America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit »
Posted By populist 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainmentit is truth which is central to Larsen's book, his solitary search for it, and his well-wrought conclusion that the public at large and even our so-called intellectual classes are no longer able to think well due to a preponderance of feeling and zeal which has largely crowded out clear reasoning based on empirical evidence and logic.
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djn3nunez35 months, 3 weeks ago
Excellent, once again Pop. Thanks.
"Larsen's hope is understandably, and almost unbearably, diminished in this, our, Age of Simplification. "And the last thing the corporate-state wants is large numbers of true selves that actually have whole consciousness." Yet the fulfillment of Larsen's fading hope is contingent upon just such a whole self, and, indeed, many such selves:
Only such a person, therefore, will be able to see through the omnipresent lies, deceit, conditionings, shortcuts, and hypocrisies that constitute and perpetuate the Age of Simplification all around us at every moment of the day and night and that nevertheless are unseen and unsensed by most. Only such a person, one who still can see, could make it possible that something, somehow, might still be done to save us all.
And yet where such a person might come from...."
I have a feeling it's not Barak, Hillary, or John.
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Grrr5 months, 3 weeks ago
I will take this opportunity to again plug Gore's "The Assault On Reason", which addresses this topic quite a bit.
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Radiofreeeuropa5 months, 3 weeks ago
I might not call it the age of simplification, but the rather the age of disinformation...or the age of simpletons.
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texangelwings5 months, 3 weeks ago
The old saying, "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me", comes to mind, after reading this article. The book sounds like a good one! I believe that people are so busy, that they miss a lot of red flags, that they should be paying attention too!
Thanks pop!
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coolrayfruge5 months, 3 weeks ago
People need to look for the great leader in themselves and learn to govern their own lives.
Work together and help each other provide the things they need.
Stop exspecting on these Political Businessmen to do whats in the peoples best interest.
Cause their laughing all the way to the Bank.
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SonOfTheMask5 months, 3 weeks ago
Wow! A rogue's gallery of elitist pseudo-intellectuals on this thread! All Barry fans, I'd bet!
Thanks for letting us simpletons know how stupid we are. We'll just tote our guns and pray to that make-believe God until you wondrous thinkers help us join the ranks of the "intelligentsia" and follow you to the secular humanistic promised land.
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SonOfTheMask5 months, 3 weeks ago
I won't feel better until I go squeeze off a few rounds...followed by some heartfelt "Praise God and pass the ammunition" benisons. Then I'll be right as rain, basque!
Of course, it'll all be a sham, I'm just another simpleton lacking the subtlety of thought necessary to embrace the sweet secular nihilism extolled by the Great Thinkers of the Far Left. Until Barack and Saint Al remove the curse of dull-mindedness that afflicts us, we stupid people will have to make do with firearms and the folly of religion.
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moxxxxxxxxxx5 months, 3 weeks ago
The intellectual elitist have always separated themselves from the masses. For too long they have coveted their great knowledge with an air of superiority. If you don't share your knowledge and mentor the next generation you should not be surprised when those who have potential but no direction take the easy path. We have become a nation of people who place more emphasis on feelings than rational , intellectual thought. Stimulate me by making me feel something is the goal of consumerism, politics and religion. If the intellects want change then come out of your ivy towers and teach people how to think not feel.
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mmrhe5 months, 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I couldn't help but get the FEELING that Larsen is another one of these Grand Conspiracy types gone amuk....I wish we were in the Age of Simplicity! Seems to me the opposite is true. We are in the Age of Complexity and Information Overload.
Consumerism may bask in ignorance and "feel good" sloganism but to blame govrnment for that is a stretch. There are plenty of informitive programs on TV for that matter if you LOOK for them.
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jthicks5 months, 3 weeks ago
As Comedienne Janine Garafalo has said, Americans have been seduced over the past 2-3 decades to "embrace our inner Archie Bunker" ! How sadly true !
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ladylou45 months, 3 weeks ago
In his book "A Nation Gone Blind," Eric Larsen says:
In other words, our nominal democracy relies upon we the people -- its
nominal citizens -- not being given any information of significance which
may cause us to think, or even to feel fully, to see and to feel reality as it
truly and objectively is."
When I read this, Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" came to mind. He and so many of our Founding Fathers truly believed in the importance of education, the central focus being our basic right of Freedom of the Press. And along with freedom, comes responsibility.
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ETproductions5 months, 3 weeks ago
The tragedy is not just that those who most need to read this book will not, but that even if they did they would have no earthly idea what it said.
We debate them on this forum, and no amount of facts are enough to shake their inner faith in their life of lies. They will claim their heroes didn't say something even when provided a video link to their hero saying exactly the quote attributed to him. To them, facts simply don't matter when you have your ideology to guide you.
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ETproductions5 months, 3 weeks ago
coolrayfruge wrote: "You do that!
I support the secound amendment!"
You talking to me?
If so, I support the Second Amendment and believe firmly in confers an individual right, not just an organized state militia's right to bear arms. But am not familiar with this secound amendment you speak of. Perhaps you could fill us in on what that is.
And for the record, being American allows one to agree or disagree with an amendment or clause of the Constitution. Those who disagreed with the 18th Amendment were not traitors. They had every right to lobby for it's repeal. They did that, and won. The 21st Amendment was ratified December 5, 1933, ending our failed experiment with Prohibition.
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