I like watching my satellite TV; it lets you make such interesting comparisons based on demographics each station is aimed at.

For example, on any network parented by CNN, you can see non-stop ads for what bailed-out Hollywood is serving as Holdiday fare this Thanksgiving forward: a few psychodramas, a movie about vampires and stuff, a movie about werewolves, and a violent armored car robbery drama, all set for release November 20 through December 4, 2009, amid a few ads for how every young person will earn AT LEAST $25,000 more per year if they'll just get ANY college degree workplace to go to or not. Man, folks sure hate that Christmas/Kwanzaa/Chanukkah...movies PROVE it, and don't you question the "box office smashes" Hollywood ALWAYS churns out (yet later goes so bankrupt they need Fed bail-outs, like car makers and TV networks and newspapers, no numbers-fakers they). You hate religion too, don't you, now that you see if the flu doesn't keep people from shopping it must lust for hard-bitten humanism that motivates NORMAL people?

But soft! Flip over to the "Hallmark" channels, aimed mostly at codgers my age or older, and all you see are ads for warm, fuzzy Holiday reruns, ads for Christmassy doohickeys, no-cost motor chairs, reverse mortgage miracles,ads telling how pre-retirement age folks can easily clear up their debt at ANY debt consolidator and just pay their bills instead of "play, and there's not one whiff that only lunatics must still like Christmas and such.

This pretty much dittoes throughout the vast diversity of TV stations cable/satellite; of internet blogs, emails, PACs, and such; and through all politicians and talk radio there are, on just about every issue there is to be micro-re-educated about.

Try this. When ANY pol say, e.g., "healthcare uber alles!", or even "no GITMO chaps in MY State!", as they prate on and on and on and on, keep repeating the question "...AND?", making it plain you want to know (minus electronic/print media) how come jobs still evaporate faster than retained/created, going commercial space has all occupants squeezed out for MORE empty strip mall/office/New Urban housing space, we need to live through flu without thought of mortgage foreclosures, and so on down the things most people see as daily concerns.

Again, so much of the talking head/cinema world today seems like a virtual world untethered to any physical realities and hardships at all. As final example, look at the "hate religion" farago. First, we need to remember in every country outside the USA, even in Canada, ALL religions are regulated and licensed. Ex officio or otherwise, outside the USA, ALL Presidential-type folks ARE the metaphysical interpreters of ALL faith in their realm; thus, in Pakistan, all Muslims are told they MUST hate whoever the regime and pals like Laden say; to counter, China and Obama say they must reign in Christianity to keep us safe from Muslims (yet China and the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives set orthodoxies even in Islam); all world leaders are fairly confident that all people of earth need tight sitting upon as the globe becomes little more than one big housing project; only such leaders need to high-five each other and suggest further financial and liberty handcuffs for all people except Ladenists at occasional G8 or G20 clambakes.

See? If some DO hate religion, it might just be disdain for the way government intereferes with the ancient-to-recent ontologies bolstering humanity, freedom, fellowship, farming, work, arts, and so on just about every government commands as orthodoxy...most people of earth, even atheists, do NOT find Saint-Simon, bin Laden, or similar destroyers doctors of God or Stoic humanity.

Thus I suggest liberal use of the query "...AND?" to media and officials, and suggest that the special feeling of belonging to some group dynamic like blogs or networks or radio shows or similar results in little more than a neutralization of one's self-interest for the exclusive comforts of those sending your energy to ground.