Granted I'm not the most social person myself (and it doesn't help that I telecommute, too), but still -- you've got news on the teevee, on the radio, on blogs and the internet. If I can pick up on the information -- sans TV, sans radio-listening, sans socializing -- then I'd figure those who do get those additional resources are even more inundated, and I'm already saturated myself.
Which is to say: no, not an excuse. And triply so when we just went through a long election cycle in which torture was a massive (and internationally-watched and -discussed) topic of the campaigns.
I've also met folks who were born in Rhode Island and are now in their fifties and have never left the state. (Yes, the mind boggles.) But that doesn't mean they don't know what's going on outside their state's borders.
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Date: 2 Jul 2009 06:58 pm (UTC)Which is to say: no, not an excuse. And triply so when we just went through a long election cycle in which torture was a massive (and internationally-watched and -discussed) topic of the campaigns.
I've also met folks who were born in Rhode Island and are now in their fifties and have never left the state. (Yes, the mind boggles.) But that doesn't mean they don't know what's going on outside their state's borders.