War on Drugs, or anything for that matter.

[kendoiwan]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/world/americas/31mexico.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

This is our foreign policy in a nutshell; "We're fighting them there, so we don't have to fight them here." Good luck to the people over "there", as long as they don't try to come over here why should I care?

[SWPIGWANG]

The fact that this gets no replies means no one cares. :p

[Rincon]

Actually, people do care-- see the various other threads on WOD and similar issues...

[fripping]

outrage fatigue

[pioneer_167]

outrage fatigue

indeed!

[kendoiwan]

I'm personally not outraged, I find peoples indifference facinating. We as a society say we care about all kinds of things, but in reality we only care about self interest. Human nature? I suppose.

[eyebyte_atWork]

War on Drugs is a joke - or more correctly stated - a campaign to turn citizens into revenue for those that want it (all while using people's beliefs against the targets).


EDIT: Follow the money - it leads to the truth.

[g_vartan]

I'm personally not outraged, I find peoples indifference facinating. We as a society say we care about all kinds of things, but in reality we only care about self interest. Human nature? I suppose.

I think we live in a rather individualistic society in America. This country has been founded by individualistic core beliefs such as the puritan work ethic and carried over from England a history of ignoring those who are marginalized (e.g., English Poor Laws). Moreover, a policy, issue, or program's perceived benefit and impact influences attitudes toward certain civic engagement issues...and based on psychological/physiological science, our attention / memory have a finite number of 'slots' hence, priorities needs to be defined across the vast amount of competing interests / inputs....

Bottomline, our country is currently focused on the economy, healthcare, and Iraq/Afghanistan wars. Unfortunately, until these issues are addressed, issues such as the 'war on drugs' would have to take a backseat. We like to keep it simple here in the US of A :mellow:

[kendoiwan]

I think we live in a rather individualistic society in America. This country has been founded by individualistic core beliefs such as the puritan work ethic and carried over from England a history of ignoring those who are marginalized (e.g., English Poor Laws). Moreover, a policy, issue, or program's perceived benefit and impact influences attitudes toward certain civic engagement issues...and based on psychological/physiological science, our attention / memory have a finite number of 'slots' hence, priorities needs to be defined across the vast amount of competing interests / inputs....

Bottomline, our country is currently focused on the economy, healthcare, and Iraq/Afghanistan wars. Unfortunately, until these issues are addressed, issues such as the 'war on drugs' would have to take a backseat. We like to keep it simple here in the US of A :mellow:


I agree with the thrust of the first paragraph.

I think the second is a cop out, next year there will be new distractions, and new reasons why our society can't be bothered to think about the blood on our collective hands.