The Desultoriness of Czech Television

After watching the discussion on Czech TV of the American election campaign,
I was reminded of William James's remark that most people believed themselves to
be thinking when they were merely reshuffling prejudices.

However, we would have to modify that.

It was is as if the conversation were built out of building blocks which consisted
of crude categories created by someone else, someone not then present in the conversation,
and there was no analysis of those categories, which were employed with an amazing lack
of grace and subtlety.

So little is understood about the USA; incomprehension in inverse proportion to the frequency with which it is discussed.