"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." - H. L. Mencken. "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them." - Thomas Sowell. - Join search for truth learn to recognize it when you encounter it. See also enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com youtube.com/user/roybercaw [Editor: Roy Bercaw]
November 4, 2013
Americans Cannot Distinguish Virtual, From Real World
[From article]
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.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0813/hanson082213.php3#.UlERnt00i6Y
Jewish World Review
August 22, 2013/ 16 Elul, 5773
Two Americas
By Victor Davis Hanson
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