Reply #101: This is a total canard... [View All]

[ElboRuum]

Personally, I find these "Americans are fat and lazy" and "wake up sheeple" memes personally offensive, whether it be meant as an attitudinal or intellectual slight, regardless of the purity of the intention.

The American public is not lazy OR stupid. You really want the "pulse of the nation" view? Fine. The people are confronted with the very real fact that they have no real effective voice in government regardless of the correctness of their vote and thus consider political involvement futile. Politics and issues are treated like games in the media and by the politicians they elect and it really doesn't seem to matter who they are, what they purport to stand for, so long as it is their "side" that wins. And choosing a side and winning seems to be a hell of a lot easier than choosing an issue and/or a philosophy and seeing your end through, especially with the serial non-compliance of elected officials as to their responsibility to represent their electorate faithfully in their best interests, whether they donated to their campaigns or not, whether they voted for them or not. Modern electoral politics, boiled down, amounts to two/four/six emotionally painful years for the losers and nothing of anything more substantial or consequential than bragging rights for the winners, no matter what "side" wins.

So please explain where the stupidity exists. Is the stupidity in realizing the very real truth of our political system that the policy follows the money, and people like you, me, and the rest of these Americans you'd call lazy, stupid, dumb as a box of rocks, don't have enough of it for their opinions to matter one whit in the halls of our government? Or is it in making the choice not to become a keyboard warrior for great justice, instead, choosing to use what little energy still exists in their worn bodies and tired minds to allow themselves a few minutes in front of the idiot box watching the vapidity of American Idol; this just to ease, temporarily, if only for a few minutes, the pain of the realization that their lives are difficult, their choices they used to know are no longer theirs, and their futures are uncertain in outcome but certainly bleak.

I'm sure people like this would be none too pleased to know that someone, with what appears to be a healthy lack of respect for his/her countrymen, thinks of them as immobile, Cheeto-stuffing, couch-potato morons (on the whole). But fear not, they probably don't have any energy left to care. I mean, if they don't have the energy left to google "the real truth absolutely and without question", what energy could they possibly have to concern themselves that a disembodied voice on the internet called them a big, fat, stupidhead.

Now why would someone make such an assertion in the first place? Well at least that would be the first question on my mind, given the fact that I'm sure that your "on the whole" would, if deemed necessary for understanding, be quickly qualified by "DU company excepted" and thus makes the choice of venue for such an assertion curious, missing the intended targets of said assertion by several miles. My theory of this state of affairs is that this is probably due to the fact that this group is a small minority of the population being catered to by much of the neocon owned media, thereby giving the impression of their numbers being much greater than they really are. Hope you're not falling for it.

Don't mind me, I must just be caught up in the meta-narrative, co-opted by AAFLS propaganda (Association for the Advancement of the Fat, Lazy, and Stupid).