On the contrary, to be critical of what the media tells them, quantify problems, rank solutions and check for conflicts of interest. This won't work though. Th

On the contrary, to be critical of what the media tells them, quantify problems, rank solutions and check for conflicts of interest. This won't work though. The critical thinking in the U.S. culture has been replaced by obedience, and we are back to hunting heretics in the name of holy symbols. It's a stable societal structure - look a poor Muslim countries, for example. They are busy blaming infidels for all their misfortunes, and will never attribute their poverty to the power structures on top of them. Threads like this, though, are good for gauging the speed of the societal decline and deciding when to emigrate forward. If you yourself haven't lived in a country where "greater good" was used to swiftly destroy the then-emerging middle class, you won't recognize the patterns, so you can ignore the whole thing.