lessons from the tv

i have the flu. this is my excuse for the following admission:

last night i watched a dateline nbc "undercover investigation" of tv infomercials.

it exposed the horrible lies that the tv marketing industry perpetuates daily on the helpless american people (note my sarcasm). what distrubed me most about watching this idiocy was how incredibly outraged random people in random shopping malls became when they found out that these televised commercials could actually be making stuff up to get viewers to send them some money.

this was far more rage and disillusionment than i have ever seen from "ordinary americans" (read, not progressive activist-types) finding out how the systematic lying machine that is our government perpetuates lie after lie, causing death after death all around the world. apparently, this nation is not apathetic, it just cares more about the possibility that "HeadOn" might not work (even when applied, as instructed, directly to the forehead) than the fact that its government has abandoned the will and well-being of its own, and the world's, people.