well...if we get into TV TV TV TV and music music music...instead of digging a little deeper via reading... then I suppose we could slide into that kind of scenario.. where people get dumber and dumber..and less and less informed... then the gov't can do what they want with them...like keep them dumb. and make them dumber. our welfare system....smacks of keeping people poor..for example... of course...now with the Internet ...so much real information is available...... along with the trivial.