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That's too bad. He would have made for a GROIT father and grandfather on so many levels.
I hadn't watched his shows in years. I think for many people he'd become a caricature of himself. At some point I stopped seeing the danger. That he'd ever be really hurt. He was just messing with animals in the relative safety of his element and with his experience of animals and their hazards. Still, I did respect his attempts to educate.
Somehow it doesn't surprise me he was caught out underwater, where we're out of our element and small things can become big problems in short order. Still, a stingray tail through the chest? Ouch.
G'night, Steve.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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