WTF? Brian Williams says American people are to blame

[JCanete]

62. Fair enough. I may disagree with you but I don't begrudge your sentiment...but you can't expect

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better results if you don't focus on the cause of those results. If some crazy kennel master were refusing to feed his doberman's and then occasionally he sent a person into the yard and they tore that person up, you wouldn't blame the dobermans equally to the kennel master. Nor would you blame the doberman's if the kennel master was training them to bite at certain people.


The sad truth is we are just animals. Our rational brain is only as capable as culture and experience provides. The only two ways people embark on a journey of engaging that part of us though, is through good models and mentors, or through experiencing severe cognitive dissonance. Otherwise we are all quite capable of being part of the mob or pack. It's where we're safe in our sameness and in our unchallenged beliefs.

But we've had that talk and I absolutely do not expect that you give of yourself to people who have nothing to give in return but disdain, and I didn't post to harp on the point that these people are products of ignorance. My distress was in the way you did seem to be letting the media off the hook, and everyone else who has a vested interest in keeping ignorance and truthiness alive. These people, far and above, are the MOST to blame. With power comes responsibility. With a voice comes the responsibility to use it for truth, or at least to not use it to propagate lies and falsehoods.