There's no safety anymore.

Maybe it’s the convenient, easy accessible mass communication that’s at fault. For the world going to hell. Everybody has a forum now. Like me. I have this blog. Don’t attract as many readers as the mass media. But hey, I’m at about 45,000 hits, and counting. A small daily following. I’m not armed or dangerous. But many crackpots are. And they have a forum. And the pundits and the media latch on to ‘em. Because they are entertaining. That’s what gets attention. Entertain us. Go out and shoot 90 people. Or even one or two. It’ll get you attention. Rant and rave. Go off the deep end. Be a Michele Bachmann. Or a Sarah Palin. Sound like a wild-eyed idiot. You’ll become the darling of Fox News and Rupert Murdoch. And you’ll get yourself promoted for the presidency of the USA. Because you are a freakin’ piece of work. Used to be we had only three major networks. They filtered the news. Tried to truly make it fair and balanced. Now we have everybody and his uncle in the forum. And they’re out to entertain. Rather than inform. And the best entertainers get the high ratings. How else could a Rush Limbaugh and a Glenn Beck succeed? As a society, we have blended with the lowest common denominators. We no longer know how to regulate ourselves. We’re a society out of control. Taken over by idiots. Because the majority rules. Idiots have always been in the majority. But used to be we didn’t let them rule. We kept them in the asylum. So the rest of us would be safe. There’s no safety anymore. –Jim Broede