Absolutely correct, pdc. The only real purpose of the media is advertising...and entertainment designed to make you tune in to that advertising. The "news" is part of the entertainment. It is not intended to inform, but merely to distract the public and keep them tuned in to the ads...as well as keep them supporting official policy as dictated from those in power.

This is the direct result of a society that values only the dollar and will pursue any feasible means of persuading its glutted public to spend their dollars on the latest commercial products.

As for school, it is primarily designed to create compliant consumers who will dutifully conform to the established system of buy and sell.

For people to actually become well informed in such a situation demands that they be nonconformists who actually have a burning desire to know the truth and are willing to go to quite a bit of trouble to search it out.

Such people are relatively rare. Most people are just looking to satisfy their immediate needs and appetites.

This doesn't mean that most people are bad or stupid. What it does mean is that the prevailing social system in America, which should provide inspired leadership and encourage its citizens to become imaginative and independent people is in truth failing them miserably and brainwashing them into being stupid as a matter of course.

When the leaders actually want and NEED their public to be ignorant is it any surprise that most of the public ends up that way?

What would happen in a family whose parents wanted their kids to be greedy and ignorant, after all? Such things have probably happened...

- LH