this is the age of the emotion, its better to feel than to think, thinking is outdated and soon to be deceased Practice.
Look at how people are ceasing to think to rely on governments, so called survey's, to do their thinking for them.
No critical thought, the government must be right for they are the government. and it goes further, pressure groups, religious nutters, all promote the feelings over facts.
this sounds bad, 25% of women are attacked.. emotionally its bad, but they dont say 75% of men are attacked.. the emotional content of stories, rather than facts is whats in the news today.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6VdNcCcweL0
this story.. emotion, rather than thought
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I just post the stories, for interest.. for everyone
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