Come with me to my underground bunker in the Adirondacks. But this dumbing down of Americans is not limited to game shows or academic standards. It extends to simple personal responsibility. Rather than take control for one's actions or the actions of one's children, it is far more convenient to place the blame on strangers. They want to make sense of the death of their loved ones, or the deaths of those who fit the demographics of their loved ones.
Life is chaotic, but they crave a sense of order and a feeling of womb-like safety.
Never mind that 80 percent of children are sexually abused by a family member or friend of the family. I believe that we have become so desensitized to the words 'sexual abuse' that we are forgetting that sexual abuse means what we have read above, that children are really being sexually tormented, really being tied up, really being raped and really being sodomized. Prey on fears. Fears of the molester under the bed, waiting to claim one's beautiful, perfect child as his next victim. In 1996, a federal building was bombed in Oklahoma City.