Posted by paxvox on October 12, 2001, at 10:24:29
In reply to oh but can you be addicted to people?, posted by kid_A on October 12, 2001, at 9:03:39
Poe understood. "All the we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
Well, Kid, must tell you I blame it all on TV and other violence thick media that we as a culture have become enveloped in. We have been dumbed down, we have been made numb, we have had our eye-lids taped open whilst the evil and violence was fed to us as fodder.
The WT Towers? How REAL did that feel? How real was Pearl Harbour to thousands who only HEARD about it, most a day or two after the fact? How many times can we watch the Zappruder film of JFK's head getting blown into a red mist before it becomes "just something we see"?
We don't internalize what we see, we pass it by, sampling this, tasting that, hearing some, ignoring others. We have become complacent and dull. Sheep..........waiting for the slaughter.
PAX
on the soap box
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