The American Politics Thread

^It's a f**king American politics thread. The reason it makes no f**king sense is because almost all American politicians are f**ked up like you wouldn't believe.

This is not exactly about American politics, but there might be a connection:

I'm not joking when I say that in general all over the globe really really stupid things are happening practically all the time now, and what makes it alarming is that the rate at which such things are happening seems to be increasing almost exponentially. I'd be happy to give lots of examples on request, but there's not enough room here. A host of them can be found in present US politics. But that's only one of many.

People all over the world seem to be losing their faculties more and more. I'm not talking about an IQ drop, that could be measured, but sensible judgement seems to be on the decline. I don't have any doubt about this, based on both permanent personal observations and research into an ever growing number of cases in the public domain. It's a fascinating study.

Based on assuming that this decline is a fact, the question is: what could be causing this? Is it the media or the excruciatingly stupid TV programing, or is it the plague of mobile networks that apparently nobody can do without any more, social media perhaps, or is it something else?

I've no idea what's been causing this over the last 15 years or so, but I'm certain there must be something. Any opinions here about this (without any barmy conspiracy theories)? I think it's a side effect of something we haven't realised yet.

Well, at least I haven't been shot down (yet).

Personally I'm wondering whether it might be that we're suffering from acute overdose of information accompanied by the constant demand for snap decisions. I see this every day in my working life. I have the destinct impression that the flood of information prevents its sorting and sensible processing because this takes time which we don't grant ourselves any more. Then again, I might be completely off beam here.

npjnpj wrote: Well, at least I haven't been shot down (yet). Personally I'm wondering whether it might be that we're suffering from acute overdose of information accompanied by the constant demand for snap decisions. I see this every day in my working life. I have the destinct impression that the flood of information prevents its sorting and sensible processing because this takes time which we don't grant ourselves any more. Then again, I might be completely off beam here.

Yes indeed.

npjnpj wrote: Erm, ... that seems to be a very even-handed answer.

Oh, um, yes indeed. I was referring to the thrust of your post, not to the part about you being off the beam. I think people get lots of information and don't know how to evaluate the source.

I think that we are roughly over 3.5 billion over our capacity. The Earth's bounty can only accommodate  roughly 4 billion humans. We have to find other things to do other than sexy sexysexy. Voompa voompa voompa. Boucny bouncy bouncy. 

Malthusianism is bunk

So I'm going to guess that he finally apologized to all the people he has insulted, and denounced Putin as a war monger.

I myself have grave doubts about news reporting on both political sides, but not so much about the actual truth content. That in itself is worrying, of course, but not the point I'm trying to make.

Press and media are supposed to report impartially on all and any events, saving points of view for commentaries. I now have the impression though that we are presented almost exclusively with commentaries masquerading as impartial news. It's just that the left wing reporting is doing a marginally better job at hiding it.

If you say that the left hasn't lost any sensible judgement, I would like to say that they have their own views, just like everyone else. But they certainly haven't got their sh*t together.