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I wonder how many people here can read this opinion piece and not see themselves in it. I managed to see me as well as the people who really dislike how I think and write. I wonder if this man is all wrong in what he says about us and what we have become.
The experiences of life can help people outgrow whatever they were indoctrinated with. What may persist, however, is the lazy habit of hearing one side of an issue and being galvanized into action without hearing the other side-- and, more fundamentally, not having developed any mental skills that would enable you to systematically test one set of beliefs against another.
Just how much of that paragraph doesn't fit all of us here, left or right? I don't know very many who it doesn't fit to a T.
Last edited by roysoldboy; 03-10-2010 at 04:03 PM..
I wonder how many people here can read this opinion piece and not see themselves in it. I managed to see me as well as the people who really dislike how I think and write. I wonder if this man is all wrong in what he says about us and what we have become.
Conservative Columnists and Political Commentary (http://townhall.com/columnists/Thomas - broken link) Sowell/2010/03/10/artificial_stupidity
The experiences of life can help people outgrow whatever they were indoctrinated with. What may persist, however, is the lazy habit of hearing one side of an issue and being galvanized into action without hearing the other side-- and, more fundamentally, not having developed any mental skills that would enable you to systematically test one set of beliefs against another.
Just how much of that paragraph doesn't fit all of us here, left or right? I don't know very many who it doesn't fit to a T.
I was called ingorant for having looked at both sides of global worming and saying hoter is better. Go figure.
I was called ingorant for having looked at both sides of global worming and saying hoter is better. Go figure.
Last night I was watching the History Channel's thing about the formation of the Earth and heard that the Earth was covered with ice just over 3 million years ago and that heating took place from under the crust as it was pushed up from pressure. That caused the melting of the ice and the Earth became what it is now, slowly. I guess that story is lots of proof that there was Global Warming and that it came about slowly but that it had to come at the right time or we wouldn't be here arguing about anything.
Last night I was watching the History Channel's thing about the formation of the Earth and heard that the Earth was covered with ice just over 3 million years ago and that heating took place from under the crust as it was pushed up from pressure. That caused the melting of the ice and the Earth became what it is now, slowly. I guess that story is lots of proof that there was Global Warming and that it came about slowly but that it had to come at the right time or we wouldn't be here arguing about anything.
So much had to go correct for us to be sitting here arguing about politics and such that it kind of makes you stop and think....
I wonder how many people here can read this opinion piece and not see themselves in it. I managed to see me as well as the people who really dislike how I think and write. I wonder if this man is all wrong in what he says about us and what we have become.
The experiences of life can help people outgrow whatever they were indoctrinated with. What may persist, however, is the lazy habit of hearing one side of an issue and being galvanized into action without hearing the other side-- and, more fundamentally, not having developed any mental skills that would enable you to systematically test one set of beliefs against another.
Just how much of that paragraph doesn't fit all of us here, left or right? I don't know very many who it doesn't fit to a T.
Why would someone at townhall be telling you guys to become liberals?
Why would someone at townhall be telling you guys to become liberals?
That's odd.
I am not sure if you were being sarcastic but that is not what the writer was implying.He was talking about weighing the ideas from both sides of a issue and then making a conclusion.He accused many of hearing only one side of the debate from the team they support and ignoring the other.I think I would call that having a closed mind set.
I do not fall in that catagory,there is ideas from the left and the right that I support.
The experiences of life can help people outgrow whatever they were indoctrinated with. What may persist, however, is the lazy habit of hearing one side of an issue and being galvanized into action without hearing the other side-- and, more fundamentally, not having developed any mental skills that would enable you to systematically test one set of beliefs against another.
Just how much of that paragraph doesn't fit all of us here, left or right? I don't know very many who it doesn't fit to a T.
Left or right it fits A LOT of people. I think it simply behooves us to recognize this. I consider myself an open minded, tolerant person, but I know I have biases. Being aware of this allows me to not react in a knee jerk response. What is most disturbing about American media today is how it pits people against each other. "You're a lib (or con) so you are naturally my enemy on these issues." It's the type of dumbed down response that really hurts us actually, but I don't think many want to think about this. It's so much easier to get riled up against "the other." Lazy acceptance and automatic interpretation of media output is a real downfall for us Americans.
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