Americans shouldn’t kid themselves: they aren’t smarter or more willing to ask questions than were their “white bread/Levittown/” 1950s’ counterparts. To the contrary, the past 40 months show that, despite perceiving themselves as well-informed independent thinkers, Americans are more vulnerable to propaganda and less willing than ever to question media/government narratives and PC slogans.
A juggernaut comprising Med/Pharma companies, government agencies and universities built many hospitals and developed innumerable new medical procedures, machines, devices, and drugs.
Round-the-clock news made people feel that critically important stuff was always happening somewhere and that government officials were always needed to manage these crises.
Just as the swelling river of insurance money overmedicalized America, the swelling river of news coverage created news junkies.
Third, by comparison, when my daughter was recovering in her 2022 half-leg Velcro cast, most got their news from such online news sources as Google News or Yahoo News or online versions of legacy newspapers.
Skewing news coverage also enables Web news sites to draw traffic and allows advertisers to target demographically unambiguous audiences.
Today, prescription drug and hospital ads underwrite the news.
If, in 2020, Americans had consumed less daily news and/or been more locally-focused, as they were in 1960-they wouldn't have felt as threatened by a respiratory virus.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-weakening-and-corruption-of-an-entire-generation-of-rebels/
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