http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/paler-shade-gray/
If you seek to know why this country is in so much trouble, check out the lead reports about the health care reform bill in today’s New York Times, WashPo, and CNN. You will find there is no intelligible discussion in any of them as to what’s actually ailing US health care. All you get is play-by-play commentary about which political tag-team is “winning,”
as if this were a pro wrestling match - with an overlay of gloat that
the Republicans fell oafishly out of the ring in the early rounds.
Of course, an issue even larger than the health care fiasco is this society’s tragic and astounding inability to discuss anything coherently in the public arena,
and that might possibly be traced to the failures of education in our
time and its effects on the current crop of editors and news producers —
people who grew up hearing that reality was just a constructed “narrative” and that one narrative was as good as another.
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