I remember when people used to say, "Don't believe everything you read," because, you know, people used to read. Books. Newspapers. Magazines.

The tv used to be called the boob tube or the idiot box. Today "The Learning Channel" is literally wall-to-wall episodes of "My 600lb Life" and "Dr. Pimple Popper". That's not a joke. Someone told me that online, and I checked. It was true. (I just checked right now, and it's a bunch of shows about dresses, teen moms, freakishly large families...I dunno. Weird crap that has nothing to do with learning about anything. Once again, capitalism shows us the way!)

The real cause is a combination of ignorance, "group think", irrationality, group dynamics, and bigotry backed by physical and emotional coercion.

Yeah, sucks don't it.