For an entire week,
I didn't hook up to the internet or turn on my phone, and I didn't mind, 'going dark', for a while.Watched VERY little news (none for first 4 days), and when I did, it was a choice of only CNN or FOX, so I'd go back and forth, avoiding commercials. WOW, if it weren't for anti-Hillary stuff, they'd have NOTHING on the 'Fair and Balanced', full-time bullshit channel, as it was constant comments, X-spurts and snarky anchors about various 'scandals and disasters', as they constantly preached how Hillary and the Dems have ruined the 'wonderful world' that GW and the Pubs left behind. Really funny how they supported Mitt, but Hillary is 'way too rich' to have connect with the average American.
Read a very good (non-fiction) book, 'The Boys in the Boat', while on vacation, that chronicled the 1936 8-man rowing team from Univ of Washington, while simultaneously telling what was going on in Nazi Germany, leading up to the Berlin Olympics. It is amazing to see FOX using the same propaganda techniques that worked so well for Goebbels, basically, as they both convince the sheep that the entire main-stream system is biased, but THEY (with their obvious agenda) are the source of TRUTH. Just like Bullshit Mountain. As always, I'm shocked that people are so easily fooled/led, BUT, history shows it happens, esp when you appeal to 'patriotism', and a "we're superior' mindset. Bottom line, great book, with a good lesson, that even the sheep should understand.
Read a very good (non-fiction) book, 'The Boys in the Boat', while on vacation, that chronicled the 1936 8-man rowing team from Univ of Washington, while simultaneously telling what was going on in Nazi Germany, leading up to the Berlin Olympics. It is amazing to see FOX using the same propaganda techniques that worked so well for Goebbels, basically, as they both convince the sheep that the entire main-stream system is biased, but THEY (with their obvious agenda) are the source of TRUTH. Just like Bullshit Mountain. As always, I'm shocked that people are so easily fooled/led, BUT, history shows it happens, esp when you appeal to 'patriotism', and a "we're superior' mindset. Bottom line, great book, with a good lesson, that even the sheep should understand.
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