Apr 7
A nagging thought has been bothering me for a while: Why is it that polite political discourse and the frank and open exchange of ideas have gone the way of the Dodo?
Everywhere I turn, there's somebody screaming at someone about their position on some topic or another.
In my head I've been putting a plan together for analyzing this, but the recurring theme is: "It's as if
"They" are deliberately setting out to divide us."
Looking back in history "Divide and Conquer" is a very popular strategy. It has been used with commensurate success by ALL imperialist powers, most dictators and not a few corporate raiders.
Who "
They" are is open to debate.
<insert your favorite conspiracy theory here/>
It bears noting that there are very few objective/neutral news sources left. And the ones on the extremes of the spectrums (spectra?) are getting more and more strident (and less and less credible, but that doesn't seem to stop people reading/hearing/viewing them apparently.)
Am I alone in thinking this way?
