Suspicious Minds
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Suspicious Minds
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#2Why does everything have to fall into intolerance and politics? I was interested and then the article turned into crap.
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#3I have unmitigated disgust for every single person with approval power over the production of that show. Every single one of them is either an idiot or conman. There is no middle ground.
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#4Why does everything have to fall into intolerance and politics? I was interested and then the article turned into crap.
Interesting. What did you object to specifically?
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#5Why does everything have to fall into intolerance and politics? I was interested and then the article turned into crap.
Where? I mostly skimmed it but didn't see anything like that.
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#6Why does everything have to fall into intolerance and politics? I was interested and then the article turned into crap.
Where? I mostly skimmed it but didn't see anything like that.
I would assume (OP please correct) paragraphs 5 & 6 are probably what is being referred to. It does seem a bit forced given the rest of the article.
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#7I have unmitigated disgust for every single person with approval power over the production of that show. Every single one of them is either an idiot or conman. There is no middle ground.
>Initially, Mr. Burns included skeptics on the show. But, he said, “we found that they had nothing to say, other than, ‘There’s no proof, there’s no proof.’ If we were going to do a show about the birth of Jesus, would we have people who say, ‘This is ridiculous?’ No.”
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#8I have unmitigated disgust for every single person with approval power over the production of that show. Every single one of them is either an idiot or conman. There is no middle ground.
A lot of this type of content being produced and/or promoted by an internet company based in Boulder, and I can assure you they are all in on the con. Some of them want to focus more on yoga and health food, but the audience numbers have pushed the whole operation towards aliens, crystals, and anti-scientific thinking. I've come to see it as a purposeful attack on humanity's rational faculty.
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#9I have unmitigated disgust for every single person with approval power over the production of that show. Every single one of them is either an idiot or conman. There is no middle ground.
It's super frustrating. I used to enjoy watching legitimate documentaries - often featuring real-life witnesses of events from WW2, the great depression, various disasters, etc.
I suppose that was many years ago now, but I still miss that. I haven't been able to take history channel seriously in at least a decade. At this point the name is totally misleading and it really frustrates me to see that people take it seriously.
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#10Modern Americans believe in an ideology that advocates the wisdom of the "average person" that coexists with constant manipulation by elites. Ancient Aliens is more proof that the average person is not particularly thoughtful but instead susceptible to wishful thinking. Don't think that doesn't also apply to politics, religion and economics.