[squarefoot]

People is kept away from details by shortening their attention span with the production of continuous pervasive stimuli. Regarding Trump, when he does something apparently stupid (on behalf of the rich people pulling his strings, let's never forget this) he's just forcing the media and people consuming them to start talking about the next event without further exploring more important ones.

[red-iron-pine]

put another way, they don't care about history because every economic actor in the economy is trying to keep them distracted -- so that they don't learn the history

the goal is to keep keep em poor, distracted, and angry

[Recurecur]

Hence the movement to eliminate the “Department of Education”, which at this point would be better named the “Department of Intentional Ignorance”.

That’s despite spending more per child than any other country in the world.

[riffraff]

No disagreement on this, but we're then talking of Brave New World and distraction, not 1984 and censorship.