While the general public is blissfully ignorant of this reality, such an astounding degree of U.S. dependency has been well-documented and is widely known in official circles.

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"This kid is going to have a hard enough life if he really is transsexual, why start fighting battles now, when he should just be blissfully ignorant"?

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Because the biggest and most powerful of them, influencing the top of business and politics and serving the interests of the one percent, are blissfully ignorant of and often hostile to more than half the population of the United States.

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Sure, there have been experiments in interactive TV -- gadgets like WebTV and modern game consoles are connected devices, and set-top boxes like the Roku and TiVo add connected components -- but most TVs in the US remain blissfully ignorant of the internet.

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