Dozens may die and hundreds may be injured today, but tomorrow we’ll be shopping online and eating dinner out. And a day or maybe a week later, we’ll be watching if not be consumed by yet another record breaking catastrophe.

Thank heavens, yesterday’s, last week’s, last month’s and this past spring’s nightmares in Las Vegas, Pyongyang, Puerto Rico, Florida, Texas and a baseball field in Northern Virginia are over. No more smartphone videos dominating dinner conversations, random new stories of individual human suffering knocking down our emotional walls, or foreboding television teaser ads making it hard to enjoy watching college football.

Just as some things central to mankind’s daily hum drum world will never change, the media’s high frequency infosphere of shock and awe will forever roil us with whatever comes next. It’s in their interest to keep us agitated but never fully informed. Thinking customers are bad for biz, while emotionally edgy folks are more easily moved to purchase whatever the ads that company their stories say to.

The past six months for the U.S. have been as chaotic as a downtown Shanghai building construction site. At times the hammering, saw screaming and yammering noise levels have been like precursors to the demolition of a rickety building. At other times it has seemed like slumlords gussying up their places up to sell or distract municipal building inspectors. In any case, these slumlords long ago realized that informing us was no longer an option. They still do this despite the fact that the 2016 election results revealed that way too many people were too upset to continue with the entrenched info elites.

In fact the media decided to do the polar opposite by joining, expanding and trumpeting the self-dubbed resistance. Regardless of social science polls and post election studies that tell these mavens that more and more people find their low content, high frequency infosphere shock and awe shows harmful or very harmful to the country, they press on.

Folks who complain are mostly the little guys, who despite their access to the internet’s multiple info sources, cannot defend themselves from the inherent high BS levels in this info market (is it better to say it’s an info warfare zone?). No one gives a rat’s behind how these little guys feel. No one has seen a need to leap into action, or to appear to.

Denying that Americans are woefully malinformed won’t get the problem fixed. It will ensure that today’s younger generations will become even more poorly informed and dependent on 1%er info elite that now extends to their beloved but deeply flawed social media.

These are hard facts. The media is wont to believe that babies born in America today will become the most well informed adults in history. God, that is beyond dumb. Let’s look at BLM, the NFL protests and then discuss the the murder rates for AAs, who is doing the murdering and the trends. Despite all the photos, videos, panel talking heads bombastic hueing and crying, and editorials, there has been practically no discussion of the underlying statistical data on what underlies these protests.

Think about that. Then think again. The absence of any reflective, contextual, deep data penetration reporting tells me that the data as we have it is contrary to the narratives of the protesters and their media supporters. To counter these high emotional content positions with counterfacts would be bad for business.

Let us be clear about the magnitude of the collapse of the American adult population knowledge base. This tumble has been so steep and so bloody that it amounts to an abject, unconditional surrender to those who will shout Fire in theaters on a daily basis, simply so they may televise the aftermath.

Media outlets are like lunatic air traffic control towers which direct incoming crippled planes to runways already overcrowded with full airplanes. That crashes are daily occurrences is preordained. Shock and awe drives traffic, eyeballs and stickiness.

They function as vast, erratic info dissemination networks for misinformation to people across America. Their toolkits focus on boosting the noise at the expense of the signal. That way they fully obscure their own biases. So any attempt to debate cherished ideas and values is neutered.

The day after is no longer the day after. It’s Groundhog Day everyday.

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