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The Crisis of the Now: Distracted and Diverted from the Ever-Encroaching Police State

The Crisis of the Now: Distracted and Diverted from the Ever-Encroaching Police State By John W. Whitehead “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk: culture-death is a clear possibility.”—Author Neil Postman Caught up in the spectacle of the forthcoming 2016 presidential elections, Americans (never very good when it comes to long-term memory) have not only largely forgotten… View Article