John V
05-27-2015, 07:44 PM
Relying on quotes and third hand accounts to form opinions.
When people use politicians for quotes, they’re not actually the ones who thought them up, they use script writers; people who get paid to write them.
Google is a vast source of information, but not necessarily the truth, whilst a reliance on the media will often steer in the direction of an intentional agenda. Pick a news story and go to CNN or Fox, or similarly to the UK BBC and often you’ll think you’re reading about something completely different.
Example:
The earth is flat. Look it’s here in black and white: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/cms/ (http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/cms/)
Not enough proof?
Look, it’s even here on Wiki: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/tiki/tiki-index.php (http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/tiki/tiki-index.php)
And now having proved the earth is flat because someone said so on Google, over a period of time it becomes internalised and anything else becomes false information and helps shape a world view. Too much false information will then give a false view of reality and eventually produce a mind-set that bears no relation to what is going on around us.
If Pelosi says that, ‘Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs’, come on, surely someone in that high position must be telling the truth? Did Clinton lie about Benghazi? No, surely not, a Secretary of State wouldn’t lie and ACA must be working if a President says it is, look, it says on a website here that ACA . . . What internalising all that produces is a liberal so far removed from reality that they’re no longer able to think independently. Conversely, a 24/7 diet of nationalism and exceptionalism produces an equally ideologically driven product.
Attributed to St. Francis Xavier, the phrase, “Give me the child until he is seven and I’ll give you the man”, is a testament of the way propaganda shapes an individual in society. Put a Chinese and an American nationalist together and you’d get the same dirge of indoctrinated ideology from each, with each claiming the moral high ground and truth.
Question, search, deconstruct . . . You’ll never find the truth, but along the way you’ll learn to separate the obvious BS for what could pass as plausible and explaining that is what forms a valid opinion.
When people use politicians for quotes, they’re not actually the ones who thought them up, they use script writers; people who get paid to write them.
Google is a vast source of information, but not necessarily the truth, whilst a reliance on the media will often steer in the direction of an intentional agenda. Pick a news story and go to CNN or Fox, or similarly to the UK BBC and often you’ll think you’re reading about something completely different.
Example:
The earth is flat. Look it’s here in black and white: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/cms/ (http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/cms/)
Not enough proof?
Look, it’s even here on Wiki: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/tiki/tiki-index.php (http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/tiki/tiki-index.php)
And now having proved the earth is flat because someone said so on Google, over a period of time it becomes internalised and anything else becomes false information and helps shape a world view. Too much false information will then give a false view of reality and eventually produce a mind-set that bears no relation to what is going on around us.
If Pelosi says that, ‘Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs’, come on, surely someone in that high position must be telling the truth? Did Clinton lie about Benghazi? No, surely not, a Secretary of State wouldn’t lie and ACA must be working if a President says it is, look, it says on a website here that ACA . . . What internalising all that produces is a liberal so far removed from reality that they’re no longer able to think independently. Conversely, a 24/7 diet of nationalism and exceptionalism produces an equally ideologically driven product.
Attributed to St. Francis Xavier, the phrase, “Give me the child until he is seven and I’ll give you the man”, is a testament of the way propaganda shapes an individual in society. Put a Chinese and an American nationalist together and you’d get the same dirge of indoctrinated ideology from each, with each claiming the moral high ground and truth.
Question, search, deconstruct . . . You’ll never find the truth, but along the way you’ll learn to separate the obvious BS for what could pass as plausible and explaining that is what forms a valid opinion.