Could an Entire Country Be Affected by ADHD? — The United States as an Example of “Frenetic Twit Affliction” — Ebola’s Disappearance from American News Is a Telling Example

© 2014 Peter Free

 

04 December 2014

 

 

We Americans are good at paying — usually misdirected — attention in uselessly short spurts

 

Anything that requires concentration and extended effort appears to be too much for us. That is a national weakness that more and more of our geopolitical adversaries are coming to count on.

 

When the tiger’s actually a self-involved pussy, what do you think going to happen next?

 

Instead of paying attention to reality, we amuse ourselves with sensationalized terror, regarding predictable happenings — like the handful of ebola virus cases that entered the United States a few weeks ago. And then we go on to something else. Exhibiting sensible concern becomes too much for us to sustain in the absence of instantaneous profit.

 

Thus, Ebola has faded from our Super Hero consciousness, despite the fact that today’s West African situation is not really any better than it was when the our media and political caricatures were hysterically running around about it.

 

It would be difficult to cartoon a more painfully insightful assessment of American culture’s brainlessness.

 

 

Yes — the ebola threat still rampantly out there and still posing a serious threat

 

Fortunately, not all of our media have sold out to ejaculating sterile semen onto a variety of used ticket stubs.

 

Charlotte Alfred, writing in Huffington’s World Post, reported two days ago that — as of 28 November:

 

 

6,899 ebola cases are distributed among 5 African nations

 

the epidemic in Sierra Leone has escalated 30 percent in the last three weeks

 

592 medical people have fallen ill with the virus, and 333 have died

 

and

 

only 17 percent of promised international aid has arrived, even though the largest ebola virus outbreak in history began nearly a year ago.

 

Yesterday, Médecins Sans Frontières — (Doctors without Borders) — executive director Sophie Delaunay appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She said that, not only has most of the aid not arrived, what is arriving is subject to uselessly out of date plans to implement it.

 

In sum, the epidemic is still moving faster than a complacent world is prepared for. And most of the American media is too witless to keep track of the real (not pretend) threat that the illness poses.

 

 

The moral? — Frenetic Twit Affliction characterizes American cultural consciousness

 

It is no wonder that we cannot find our national behind (or head) with both hands. Perhaps we should put something medical in our water.