(September 1, 2014 at 6:06 am)ManMachine Wrote: It might help you to understand modern media a little better if you looked into something called editorial bias and sensationalism.Thanks, but I'm way too old for naivety. I've been following politics and world affairs for about 15 years now. Europe has an existential problem with Muslim immigration. You can wake up to it, or go back to sleep. Most people stay asleep due to normalcy bias:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias
"The normalcy bias, or normality bias, refers to a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This may results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster..."
But actually, deep down, a lot of people do understand the problems facing the West, it's just that the problems are so huge and seemingly insolvable, they just put them aside and carry on.