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kleinbl00  ·  2583 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Two Mr. Rogers "Conflict" episodes resurfaced this week.

I so pulled 'em down. Sitting as happy little MP4s on my desktop.

The argument has been made that never before has there been so much information - the tasty tidbit is the average American sees more information in a day than the average Reformation-era peasant saw in a lifetime. So quantitatively speaking, it's safe to say that there's more misinformation available now than ever before. At the same time, i've seen enough newspapers minimizing the damage at Pearl Harbor and similar bits of propaganda to know that you should never assume your era is special simply because you're living through it.

On a related note, Jon Ronson decided to accompany a 26-year-old Alex Jones as he "infiltrated" Bohemian Grove back in 2000 for the BBC miniseries "Secret Rulers of the World." I haven't watched much of it but I love the book that came from it.

Suffice it to say that Ronson is as open-minded as a rational human being can be but Jones finds the limits.