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^This kid may be young but he's right on the money
My suggestion is this - turn off the TV, stop going to news sites every day. I used to be kind of a news junkie but you know what, it's pretty pointless. All the focus is on the tit for tat bullshit and not on the real issues. It's designed to persuade you to one side or another, to buy into a set of beliefs, that aren't necessarily in your best interest.
Basically what we have now is a society where one half hates the other half, based on what the media has been feeding them. When people are so strongly polarized, it becomes very easy for powerful interests to use them as pawns to achieve what they want.
Choose not to be a pawn - turn off the cable news, stop reading the endless parade of politicial opinion sites telling you Obama sucks or Palin is dumb, in fact I would say it wouldn't be a horrible thing to avoid any kind of editorial at all for a while just to balance things out. Try it for a few months and make up your own damn mind for a change.
- There is a theory out there that the people who are most informed are the least informed at all...since they have no perspective on the issuesukit
- perspective on the issuesukit
- Does this mean I shouldn't read the NY Times everyday? I feel so naked when I don't know what's going on in the world.omgitsacamera
- I think of the same theory in regards to myself, I think it stems from my teachers comments on my essays...omgitsacamera
- ...great facts, but no commentary/analysis.omgitsacamera
- I just find myself thinking there is a certain "brain washing" that goes on when you continually read the same media sources...ukit
- One set of assumptions leads to another set of assumptions and before you know it you "care" about issues that don't make a dime of difference in your lifeukit
- make a dime of difference in your life.ukit
- But I think the worst part is that it leads to groupthink/ nonobjectivity which is the opposite of what we need to solve difficult problemsukit
- solve difficult problemsukit