Meanwhile, the public continues to read about what they already know. And they hang out only with like-minded people. There are huge cadres of people who are practically duplicates of each other. They all think alike, dress alike, and go to the same group-approved places.

With the slow death of newspapers, this beehive-like behavior is only going to get worse. And schools are not helping; they tend to have a political agenda and seem to limit, not enhance, world perspective. This is worsened by a de-emphasis on actual learning and an over-emphasis on personal self-esteem. The self-esteem movement in education has fostered underachievers who are now out in the world of business, taking on jobs as clerks and cashiers. They can't add. They can't spell. They have no idea where Chicago is located on a map. They can't read a map, in fact. They are seemingly stupid and mostly incompetent. But hey, they think they are winners just because they've been told they are winners. It was drummed into them.

These people eat up information from the Internet and they believe everything they read. They pass along gossip as fact. They fall for every hoax under the sun (especially the very old ones). You wonder when some Nigerian is going to fleece them. I have no idea what is going to happen when it dawns on this crowd that they are useless boneheads.

Media is streamlining our opinions and filter out all the inconvenient parts of reality that we don't like (death, drugs, war, famine, inequality). The product is exactly what John C. Dvorak is describing here; a narrow-minded, zombie-fied crowd of people who can't think independently of the social acceptance constructed by the media empire. "But I saw it on TV!1!!" they say, and people believe it. It's time we cut through the bullshit of modern society and examine things for what they really are. You can separate yourself from the zombie-crowd by remaining critical, using your brain, and rejecting ideas that are taken for granted simply because they're socially popular.