SupremeAC said:

Ravenprose said:

This hobby is quickly becoming unaffordable.

Pfffft!  You clearly don't own a boat.  Gaming costs peanuts.  Peanuts!

Gabe Newell: “Get on my level scrubs!”

Today's topic on the radio is 'the free birth society', a near cult that propagates giving birth without any medical assistence, born out of greed by a lady who saw an opening for a market and has made millions on it, only to lose her third child while practicizing her own insane beliefs.

Even ignoring my own history with the subject, what is it with Americans that makes them so susceptible to morons who'll denounce any form of scientific knowledge and the likes?

I came back to edit and soften my post, as perhaps it's our own media that focuses solely on the extremes.  Which undoubtedly is the case.  But the fact that you replied and kind of agree shows that it's probably more than that.

It's also strange when you compare the media landscape in say Russia, where everything is state controlled and people are fed the 'truth' that the government wants them to see, and that in America, where media is so free that it has given space to 'conspiracy types', that authocrats manage to thrive on both.  In the first there is no room for facts and in the second there is so much paranoia and doubt created about everything that the truth just gets swamped.