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To listen to talk radio, to watch TV pundits, to read a newspaper's online message board, is to realize that increasingly, we are a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from even objective truth. We admit no ideas that do not confirm us, hear no voices that do not echo us, sift out all information that does not validate what we wish to believe. Editorials & Opinion | Don't confuse them with facts | Seattle Times Newspaper
There is very little thinking going on here, mostly regurgitation.
Judging by some of the emails I receive, there is very little thinking going on anywhere. I am appalled at the nonsense that some people believe to be true, simply because they find it emotionally satisfying. Even more appalled that they insist on confirming their ignorance by passing along the nonsense to all on their email list....or, even worse, posting it on a message board.
Just do what I do, find out the truth (if possible) and send it to all the people that got the chain e-mail to let them know that it is just a bunch bunk. Then watch them try to wiggle out of looking like an idiot.
Cheaper than a movie ticket and just as enjoyable.
Just do what I do, find out the truth (if possible) and send it to all the people that got the chain e-mail to let them know that it is just a bunch bunk. Then watch them try to wiggle out of looking like an idiot.
Cheaper than a movie ticket and just as enjoyable.
I do this, also, when there is a send list visible. It's interesting that the people who pass on the most BS make the most use of the BCC option.
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To listen to talk radio, to watch TV pundits, to read a newspaper's online message board, is to realize that increasingly, we are a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from even objective truth. We admit no ideas that do not confirm us, hear no voices that do not echo us, sift out all information that does not validate what we wish to believe. Editorials & Opinion | Don't confuse them with facts | Seattle Times Newspaper
I feel some people will breeze through the above quote and think, oh - I don't need to read (or heed) this! Which, if true, is kind of funny. It really is a very useful observation for anyone seeking information from any media source and of course for anyone engaged in a forum and online msg boards.
Just do what I do, find out the truth (if possible) and send it to all the people that got the chain e-mail to let them know that it is just a bunch bunk. Then watch them try to wiggle out of looking like an idiot.
Cheaper than a movie ticket and just as enjoyable.
I do that regularly and have lost a few friends because of it and even become estranged from family members.
Worse, I get a lot of these e-mails about Obama based upon pure lies from some of my Baptist friends and, when I point out the obvious lies, they don't care. At least two of them have basically told me not to bother them with the truth: this is a fight for the soul of America and, as Christian's, it's alright to fight lies with lies.
To listen to talk radio, to watch TV pundits, to read a newspaper's online message board, is to realize that increasingly, we are a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from even objective truth. We admit no ideas that do not confirm us, hear no voices that do not echo us, sift out all information that does not validate what we wish to believe. Editorials & Opinion | Don't confuse them with facts | Seattle Times Newspaper
"In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.
The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving.'
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