Lest We Remember

We are fed a steady diet of bread and circus by the mainstream media, not to inform us of what is important but to distract us from it. Many Americans are over-prescribed psychoactive drugs so that they can escape or avoid reality. America's children are labeled as hyperactive and given drugs for a condition that used to be merely thought of as "childhood". Instead of going outside to learn about and explore the world, our children find themselves seated in front of video terminals, playing games that often desensitize them to violence. There are real concerns that are ignored while America focuses on celebrity worship. The media masters not only shield us from the horrors of the world that we should be preparing to face, but from the beauty of creation that we may appreciate by simply going outside, away from the slickly produced profit machine that is poisoning our minds and killing our spirits.