emusonacid! legacy

Interview with one of my favourite American authors


snip:

The sense that there are no consequences--that can happen if you keep the people diverted. Television changed everything. Some 60 or 80 percent of Americans still think Saddam Hussein was a partner of Osama bin Laden. They hated each other, and they had nothing to do with each other. Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. But if you keep repeating it and repeating it--and Cheney still does; nobody's switched him off, so he just babbles and babbles like a broken toy--how are they to know otherwise? Yes, there are good journals here and there, like The Nation, but they're not easily found. And with our educational system, I don't think the average person can read with any great ease anything that requires thought and the ability to exercise cause-and-effect reasoning: If we do this to them, they will do that to us. We seem to have lost all track of that rather primitive notion that I think people all the way back to chimpanzees have known. But we don't.

more:


http://www.rense.com/general63/undo.htm

Odd coincidence:
I was so taken with that interview after reading that I added a link to the Gore Vidal Wikipedia page. I did so the day before Silverman2 posted this nearly two years ago. I haven't edited Wikipedia before or since that. Not earth shattering, just really strange.