This is because agribusiness has invested billions of dollars in keeping us complacent through using their influence in the media, government, educational institutions, and environmental organizations.
And if you don't pay attention then they promote the possibility that the viewers are becoming complacent, setting us all up for a major disaster in the future.
And let's face it, a lot of times the media doesn't like reporting on good news, but every once in a while, it's important for us to hear some good news, not to make us complacent, but to give us confidence that if we work harder, we can make even more good news.
Shame prevents us from being complacent; it urges us toward self-critique.
In the liberal democracies of the west since 1948 the circumstances envisaged by the drafters were largely realised in the lives of most ordinary folk, to an extent that has made them (us) complacent and inattentive.
Pragmatism, far from making us complacent, appeals to our "buoyancy" and calls to us: Come out and fight.
Regardless, the good news on health care costs shouldn't make us complacent.
Chairman Swannell insists that it is "utterly misplaced" to call us complacent.
I think it's a classic case of superfluity making us complacent about what we've got.
