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Ignorance is Piss
The tumult in Iran has lasted late into the night,and yet,here in America,the cable news networks are firmly in fire-and-forget weekend programming mode. Larry King was on during his regularly scheduled slot this evening,MSNBC is running it’s standard “documentaries”on prison life,and CSPAN-3 was airing an interview with former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun,who has been dead for over ten years.
Meanwhile,here’s the main page of CNN.com,which might as well be a representative sample of America’s perspective on the world:
That’s right. A (counter?-)revolution may well be brewing in Iran,and in CNN’s best judgment,Americans should be more interested in the bankruptcy of a national chain of amusement parks.
Sometimes I marvel at the extent of our national self-absorption. Is any other country on Earth as staggeringly ignorant and dangerously influential as ours?