Hmmm. Maybe part of the reason we're such a culture of simpletons...

[Smarmie Doofus]

http://www.theopedproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=65


...is that no one's willing to analyze *anything* in more than 800 words.

And preferably "around" 600.

"Land of snap decisions;

Land of short attention spans;

Where nothing is really savored long enough

To really understand. "--- Joni Mitchell.

[siligut]

1. That is definitely a sales technique

Buy now and save. One day only. Now or never.

[HiPointDem]

2. Not only a question of will, I think. There's some evidence of structured attempts to discourage

longer analysis. Thus Twitter.

I am old enough to remember when the Hollywood-style news came in and the old-style news faded. Under Reagan.

[GopperStopper2680]

3. Unfortunately...

People in this nation are too busy obsessing with petty concerns of entertainment exogenous matters to take an inward look at themselves and see where and to what degree there is room for improvement. If a person thinks there's no room for improvement in themselves they are up for a savage awakening eventually. If people are conintuously obsessed with who the next hollywood superstar is going to be they're not going to be learning anything or doing anything useful.

[applegrove]

4. And the rich in the USA worked hard to get Americans not to think for themselves, but to react.

We didn't have that so much in Canada.