Posts Tagged “panic”

Most people don’t do a lot of thinking, especially about current events. It’s true. Zogby did a survey of Obama voters, and a vast majority of them had no idea that the Dems were in charge of Congress. Because so few people do their own thinking, many people simply defer to the news media, and believe whatever pablum they are spoon-fed. This becomes something of a problem, simply because (unlike the consipracy theorists would have us believe) there is no monolithic organization dictating policy. Instead, we have a bunch of groups and individuals out there, whipping up the muddled asses…um, huddled masses, for their own, shortsighted aims. The result is that the media, trying to whip people up into a frenzy (to insure the election of Obama) latch onto the economy, and do such a good job scaring everybody, that we end up with an economy that is in worse shape than it would be otherwise. (Hard to believe, but true.)

So how do you market to sheeple? Read the rest of this entry »