I can assure you I do enjoy myself, I have a charmed life.

From my intellectual point of view I am distressed at the state of television. We used to have programs on the History channel that were about history, On the animal planet we had documentaries on nature and all its wonders. What we have now are pure capitalist propaganda.

It seems that with programs like Ax men and pawn stars what we get are programs about how these things can be exploited to turn a buck.

If we want reality lets show these swamp people with no insurance when they fall ill or have a hand chomped off by a gator and the reality of trying to get a medical bill paid.

Perhaps a program about how the Wild man lost all his teeth due to lack of dental care.

It distresses me to think so many of my fellow americans have no critical thinking skills.

I have a girl that likes to watch the Long Island medium and to keep the peace I sometimes watch it with her and avoid commenting.
"Ok lady if your talking to the dead ask the hard questions, Is it Jesus or Budah or Alla am I going to the right church and should I even bother going to church?"

Nope in Uber Amerika the sheep sit transfixed and suck on the glass teat of TV and drink up all the mind numbing propaganda.

some things really are giving some people a Cannibbling Fit,when they just could press "OFF"!
And then they get completely derailed by some trashy crapsite like Mother Jones!

Your comments are off the rail Mr Conrad. If you have an issue with the article by Mother Jones please state it. I found it refreshing that they are doing the Job 60 Minutes used to do, you know like exposing fraud and ignorance.

This is my society unlike you Mr Conrad I am an American I have children growing up in this society. It would be nice if it resembled something that is descent and not pure rubbish.

I must leave you now and leave the comfort of my fire and venture out to my commute to work its like 7 degrees out and snowing gona be a long night for sure, sometimes I think I am the only one who has a job on this Forum full of opinionated people.

Your comments are off the rail Mr Conrad. If you have an issue with the article by Mother Jones please state it. I found it refreshing that they are doing the Job 60 Minutes used to do, you know like exposing fraud and ignorance.

This is my society unlike you Mr Conrad I am an American I have children growing up in this society. It would be nice if it resembled something that is descent and not pure rubbish.

I must leave you now and leave the comfort of my fire and venture out to my commute to work its like 7 degrees out and snowing gona be a long night for sure, sometimes I think I am the only one who has a job on this Forum full of opinionated people.

well,Sunshine,first of all The Mother is so Leftwing,she constantly flies in a Circle!


Secondly,I am at 72 retired,but have put my 57 years of work in,something you still are working at!
So,it seems,you are wrong on this one as well!

Thirdly,do you really think you are the Spokesman for your Fellow Americans?

Fourth,there are no better Sheeple than Union-Sheeple,since you brought up that Subject!

Again I wonder why a 72 year old swiss would spend so much time on American politics. What is your agenda Mr Conrad?

I as an American am critical of of the current state of television after all it is a window to our society and when that window paints a false reality and further dumbs down our stupefied society along comes Mr Conrad with his silly photo shop dumps and irrational comments. I ask again what is your interest in all this?

I turned it off..... made my TV a nice big monitor.... problem solved.

When I am at a friends or the hospital however, where a TV is on, it never ceases to amaze me how anyone knows what a program is even about today. By the time the commercials end preaching the beauty and ease of accruing debt, debt and more debt, or big pharma pushing drugs with side effects worse than the ailment, or more shows with more commercials about incurring more debt, how do you remember what you were watching in the first place?

And people actually pay for this "entertainment"? AMAZING!

God it just makes me ashamed to be an american knowing grown adults watch this moronic crap. It sends chills down my spine wondering what type of demographic these producers are trying to reach.

From my intellectual point of view I am distressed at the state of television.

My fellow americans I urge you for your own good to stop watching "reality" TV.

Here is an interesting expose on the Call of the Wild man. Pretty much sums up what most thinking humans already know that these programs like Duck Dynasty, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars are all faked and scripted.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/01/animal-abuse-drugs-call-of-the-wildman-animal-planet

This article details how fake the program is how the producers are in hot water for capturing and drugging animals placing them in entertaining places and calling in the "wildman"

Not much hope for the collective mind of America when people watch this type of trash TV.

It's not effective if your batteries are dead and you don't have a spare set and there's no channel buttons on the cable box.



I don't watch "reality tv" anyways.
I watch Pawn Stars just to learn some history but I don't consider it to be reality tv.
I watch anime. Looney Tunes. WWE Raw and Smackdown. Mythbusters. etc.

You live in one of the most progressive countries in Europe Mr Conrad why do you wish americans to live in a right wing Darwinian world? maybe you should try to sway your own countrymen on he benefits of free market ya know for profit healthcare and prisons trillion dollar defense budgets that just fleece the taxpayers denying them the benefits of their hard earned taxes.

What type of country could we build without all this?

I would like to think something like Switzerland.

Still think Switzerland is up in Scandinavia somewhere,hmm?

Again Mr Conrad with all due respect. You live in one of the most progressive countries in Europe. Would it not be a wiser course for you to spend your energies on creating your right wing utopia there?

If you have an issue with the article by Mother Jones please state it. I found it refreshing that they are doing the Job 60 Minutes used to do, you know like exposing fraud and ignorance.

I have real doubts you are what you claim. What 72 year old swiss spends his hours arguing american politics? IS so well versed on all the right wing talking points and guards all the threads like a mother bear guards her cubs dragging topics to their lowest levels........