Ferrari Mailing List: Re: stupidity of the press

[Ken Rentiers (rentiers]

On Jan 18, 2009, at 6:37 AM, red5hilser [at] aol.com wrote:

> If you work for a newspaper, or write for the TV industry, you write  
> at the
> 8th grade level because that's what our fine educational system is  
> churning
> out  by the millions. Those ignorant (not stupid) slobs are the ones  
> that are
> putting  food on your table and paying your bills, get it?.

I hope writing doesn't disappear. To write well you must be both lucid  
and capable of independent analysis. Creativity helps. You can't write  
anything worth reading that is illogical unless you are Dr. Seuss.  
Help your kids to join the Elite. Buy them books not video games.  
Teach them to think like public schools once did.

If you can't read you can't write. Unfortunately, the same folks that  
gave us Amtrak and the US Post Office have been educating children  
(except their own) for several generations now. We may Dance With The  
Stars but the Chinese will reach them before we do.

We are about to inaugurate a mystery man. The majority of the American  
public. George Soros and Warren Buffet aside, 99.8% of Americans,  
voted for Obama because he was charismatic, and especially because he  
was black. I don't mind a black president, hell I wrote Dr. Walter  
Williams urging him to run. I just want a leader with a clear grasp of  
economic fundamentals. The last one was Reagan. I propose a  
Constitutional Amendment stating that prior to running for high office  
all aspirants must have met a payroll.

Newspapers are closing because the cost of obtaining information has  
dropped precipitously with the advent of the internet. Concurrently,  
society has fractured into multiple clusters with divergent interests  
and beliefs. Newspapers broadcast (broad-publish?).

The traditional TV networks will go next. By extension, it becomes  
easy to see that the Nation State, based on an industrial hierarchal  
society, is going the way of the feudal fiefdom. Islamofascists are in  
ascendency, because they are not defined by geography, but a belief  
system, odious as those beliefs may be. The true response to Israel's  
invasion of Gaza (which I fully defend) is not local Hamas opposition  
but global rioting and looting as seen January 10 in cities across the  
globe.

To glimpse the future that seems to be coming read Neal Stephenson's  
stuff. Example here... go ahead; Look inside.   uk

http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Bantam-Spectra-Book/dp/0553380958/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232284295&sr=1-1