Jon Stewart at his Rally for Sanity:
“The country’s 24-hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder.”
The black-or-whiteness, open-and-shutness, did-he-or-didnt-he-ness, correlation-and-causation-be-damnedness of too many of our English, Hindi, regional, print and TV outlets will take us there someday. In watching America, we watch ourselves 20 years from now, but, apparently, don’t see.