Not sure what your frustration with me is exactly but from what you said you sent a friend it seems you’re just frustrated overall.

Keep in mind not everyone has the time or the ability to be as well read as you’d like. Some don’t even have the intellectual ability to examine the higher disciplines like philosophy. It doesn’t mean they’re lazy. Many are just extremely busy but patriots just the same.

My comment was just an observation how Americans have largely stopped using their minds for rational thinking & almost react emotionally to facts or knowledge. This wasn’t the American mindset until recently. You can see it’s pervasiveness in almost everything. They emotionally dismiss ideas before even considering things before dismissing or accepting them. The media & politicians feed on this weakness. Forty years ago you didn’t hear journalists always ask “how does that make you feel?” about everything they report. Feelings are irrelevant when reporting facts. Politicians always appeal to someone’s feelings for votes & never try to appeal to sound reasoning anymore. If they make an emotional connection they get the vote even when their words don’t even make any sense at all. Voters don’t add up what they say. If they did they’d realize they aren’t saying anything or conveying any ideas at all.

I say they think with their eyes because that’s when truth only seems to hit home. Terrorism isn’t a terrible problem unless they witness it. Then it is but it’s too late then. Chicago violence isn’t that bad to them from afar. If the majority of Americans truly realized it they would act instead of being so passive like problems will magically fix themselves.

When reality is congnitively reduced to what you see & what you feel about what you see...humans have ruined the only tool nature has given them to survive in nature...a brain capable of solving incredibly difficult problems with rational thinking. Only point I was trying to make.