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Mark Twain once said;
“In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.”
I don’t think I have ever seen more graphic demonstration of the truth in that statement than in some of the stupid red team vs blue team threads in Non-Moto. The Fiscal Cliff thread is a great example.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts puts it even more succinctly in a recent column;
“In my 35 years of experience in journalism, I have found that most readers read in order to confirm what they already think and believe. It is the same for the right-wing and the left-wing. They cannot escape their ideological boxes and are creatures of their biases. They want their prejudices vindicated and their beliefs supported. A writer who tells them something that they do not want to hear receives abuse. These readers cannot benefit from facts and new information and change their minds. They already know everything and only want information that supports their beliefs and advances their agendas.
If a writer makes the case so clear that readers simply cannot avoid it, the reader will intentionally misread the article or book and attack the writer for saying everything that he does not say. The chorus will join in the effort to shut down the unwelcome information before it reaches others.”
Sound familiar?
“In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.”
I don’t think I have ever seen more graphic demonstration of the truth in that statement than in some of the stupid red team vs blue team threads in Non-Moto. The Fiscal Cliff thread is a great example.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts puts it even more succinctly in a recent column;
“In my 35 years of experience in journalism, I have found that most readers read in order to confirm what they already think and believe. It is the same for the right-wing and the left-wing. They cannot escape their ideological boxes and are creatures of their biases. They want their prejudices vindicated and their beliefs supported. A writer who tells them something that they do not want to hear receives abuse. These readers cannot benefit from facts and new information and change their minds. They already know everything and only want information that supports their beliefs and advances their agendas.
If a writer makes the case so clear that readers simply cannot avoid it, the reader will intentionally misread the article or book and attack the writer for saying everything that he does not say. The chorus will join in the effort to shut down the unwelcome information before it reaches others.”
Sound familiar?
https://youtu.be/uepFO4psgKE
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All the republocrat cheerleaders and loyalists are cheering for the teams that have ruined our country...and that counts for something, right?
It's comical really.
They cannot escape their ideological boxes and are creatures of their biases. They want their prejudices vindicated and their beliefs supported. A writer who tells them something that they do not want to hear receives abuse.
Oh sweet irony.......lmao.
What about Rand?
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