Americans Cannot Distinguish Virtual, From Real World

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We can communicate information at the speed of light but have trouble finding anything meaningful to send back and forth.
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the critical moments of the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. The president apparently was not glued to live video feeds, as the photos from his re-election campaign suggested.
"Most people were like down in the Situation Room," Love said, "and [the president] was like, 'I'm not going to be down there, I can't watch this entire thing.' So he, myself, Pete Souza, the White House photographer, Marvin [Nicholson], we must have played 15 games of spades."
The commander in chief was playing cards while Navy Seals risked their lives to kill America's No. 1 enemy -- only later to use photos of himself watching live feeds for his re-election sloganeering: "bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!"
That pretense sums up the growing void between real and trivial America.

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Jewish World Review
August 22, 2013/ 16 Elul, 5773
Two Americas
By Victor Davis Hanson