It's to the point that in the past few years I've been completely incapable of having a normal conversation with most people. What the fuck do people even talk about now that there's nothing on the fucking television?
Politics are the new celebrity gossip now, and people absorb it just as shallowly as they did the gossip. The founding fathers wanted an informed body politic even at the expense of an open one, but decided against it in the hopes we could have both.
Instead, we've developed the opposite: an extremely active, but uninformed citizenry that blindly follows whatever cause is fashionable for the era.
I'm not a Christian, nor do I go around attacking anyone's religious beliefs, but I always tell my close Christian friends that they are compelled by scripture to be ready to defend their beliefs, and that means devoting time to reading scripture and trying to understand it. If God wrote this book, you should probably be reading it because it's important. Same thing with politics. It has a meaningful impact on your life, you should understand it.
Everyone ignores the things that matter most. I'd say we've "become" complacent, but I think we've always been this way.
Politics are the new celebrity gossip now, and people absorb it just as shallowly as they did the gossip. The founding fathers wanted an informed body politic even at the expense of an open one, but decided against it in the hopes we could have both.
Instead, we've developed the opposite: an extremely active, but uninformed citizenry that blindly follows whatever cause is fashionable for the era.
I'm not a Christian, nor do I go around attacking anyone's religious beliefs, but I always tell my close Christian friends that they are compelled by scripture to be ready to defend their beliefs, and that means devoting time to reading scripture and trying to understand it. If God wrote this book, you should probably be reading it because it's important. Same thing with politics. It has a meaningful impact on your life, you should understand it.
Everyone ignores the things that matter most. I'd say we've "become" complacent, but I think we've always been this way.