The smartest Generation ever..Or the most ignorant?

This is my first post on a Blog, I was a bit angry and thought about putting it on the internet like everyone else seems to, just to see how it'd go. So here we go:

What I want to know is why in this age of easily available imformation and were learning about the world and how it works is incredibly easy people seem to be becoming increaseingly ignorant to the world around them? They beleive what the papers say and never put themselves in other peoples shoes - They expect everyone to be far more moralled and innocent than them.

For example take the facebook groups that have popping up recently like "We care about Great Britain- Do You?" (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=271541202925&ref=nf ) Here say "You're paid from our taxes so start earning it and stop stealing it" They've swallode up the intire MP expenses story without knowing anything about the MP expenses system. Expenses were originally introduce because it was the only way people from poor or middle class backgrounds could afford to become MPs when the option first became available (Mps were paid very little and they needed to have two houses) as a way to give them the ability to be an MP as a career, without having to raise there wages by a large amount because that would have caused controversy. This system stayed in place with MPs easily being able to claim money, it was essentialy there for the taking, Who can honestly say if they offered money and they'd be no consequenes for taking it, that they would say no? The MPs were just using the system a way anybody would.

It also says "If you burn our flags, we'll burn your benefit handouts", On top of the recent campaigns to stop extremeist religious groups from being able to peacefully protest, shows an incredible amount of ignorance. There making demands of the goverment..at the same time as asking them to restrict peoples ability to protest? What happens if the goverment does stop extremeist groups protesting? How long is it until no-one can protest against anything the goverment does, without being arrested? They'd soon be complaining if they weren't allowed to protest immigration.


Thanks to anyone who reads this (If anyone does lol), please leave comments - I'm not bothered if there petty aslong as there constructive or debate style :)