26 - Part VII G: A War Without Pain: How the Media Failed America, and Americas Failed Themselves

After taking one year off to teach “Forums for a Future” as a university honors course, I have resumed the series. The continuation applies the concepts developed in the first 16 episodes to an open-end list of contemporary social issues. As a way to get started, I created a three-part “Review and Transition” (Podcasts 17-19) to provide a brief summary and introduction for those new to the series, and a quick review for the original subscribers. Today’s episode, Podcast # 26, is the seventh in the open-ended series of positive approaches for addressing the many specific contemporary economic, social and political issues that challenge our capacity for having a future in the 21st Century. In today's podcast, the key concept is that media has not born witness to what we have done to either to Iraq or to ourselves. A war with no visible pain is a war that should never have been fought. Never again should we let the government or the media keep us in a bubble of isolation to protection us from our personal endorsement of the choice for war.