Lara's concerned. Aren't we all?

Well, look at it this way. I re-read what I wrote and it does appear quite pessimistic, moreso than I'd intended.

Because I am hopeful, and I do think that the U.S. will pull out of it. It might have to go through a serious crisis, a-la 1929 kinda thing, god-forbid, tfu tfu tfu, but people will learn and as we expose them to more of the facts --
-- See, that's where the problem starts.

You've read Ma'ariv and Yediot, right? Our two leading newspapers in Israel? Well, if you've looked at them, you'll have noticed that their journalistic approach is pretty much tabloid journalism -- much in the spirit of Fox News -- the idea is to give you nifty chewable pieces of yummy news that you can handle (even if it's scary, it's easily processed because it's watered-down from all those pesky FACT thingies) and people aren't looking too far.

Greenwald's movie, "OutFOXed", does portray it as a little bit more sinister than it actually is, because it's compressed into a one hour film. But you get the idea -- flashy graphics, propaganda-style reporting, how much more Orwellian could you get?

If people keep chewing on the easy bits and forgoing the actual content, because they can't be bothered to do their own fact-checking (Hell, who can? That's what news networks are for!), if they can't be bothered to think in depth about what they are looking at, well then there's a problem.

I say tackle it one giant monster at a time. Pick your battles. But there's hope yet.
Come on, is it really as bad as that all overI?