Many words and feelings come to mind when I think about my reading of Mikey Moore's "Idiot Nation"; Anger, frustration, humor, and sorrow to name a few. I felt anger when I realized his bias towards certain people and groups, particualry when the office or term had yet been carried out in full. I felt humor about the whole thing on a whole because of his way of writing. Even when was angry, I was not really angry because all I could do was just laugh inside to my self about alot of the truths he told. Obviously I felt sorrow, as all true Americans should, because of the reality of the state of our country.
The way in which Moore explained his point of view is brilliant; Anybody who thinks otherwise is crazy. Weather you agree completely or absolutely despise moore's views, he is effective nonetheless. His smugness and rebellious attitude makes everybody interested in what he has to say, regardless of their opinion of even how he goes about writing it.
The advantages of Moore communicating his thoughts in this way are, once again, very obvious. He does not care what people will think when they read this. He does not care about what any authorities will say or think, not even the president. he is very brash, bold, and outspoken. Even any bad publicity he recieved after writing this text was actually still very good publicity.
The only disadvantage I can think of is the people that, after reading the text, hated him and thought he was ridiculous. But I really don't believe that Mr. Moore is too concerned about appearances. In fact he cares nothing about what anybody thinks or says about him in a negative way.
I could go on forever but I dont want to write a novel. I just want to end in saying I agree that the problem with education in our country lies in our politicians, and not in our teachers. So in a way the problem lies in each and every one of us. It is our responsibility to make sure that these people we are electing are intelligent good people, who genuinely care for the common person.
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