People will believe anything that reinforces their biases
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Haven’t you seen the commercials? “I believe smart news.”
Always thought they were airheads.
People will believe anything that reinforces their biases
Yes. The mainstream media demonstrates this every day with propaganda devoid of fact or truth. They rush to define narrative based on lies.
The “Gentle Giant” narrative from Ferguson remains the best example although there are many others. We have suffered years of our elected President being accused of all kinds of things that have been shown to be untrue and all they do is move on to the next fabricated story.
It is very dangerous and all of us want to quickly jump to conclusions based on incomplete data. It happens here on FR every day (myself included). The “media” plays this tune and since like-minded people tend to aggregate together to view news or discuss current events it is reinforced.
This is how we have a nation that sees two opposing “truths” about every issue and it is why civil and rational public discourse is rather pointless. This sad state of affairs benefits our politicians and media, but it is the enemy of truth.
Read through the article. Has some interesting points, but as it went along, I began to realize that if this article is completely accurate, then how can I even comment on the article, since all personal perception is totally biased?
In fact, those who wrote the article itself are also completely doused in their own reality and self perception - so, it the article really accurate or not? According to the article, we can’t really know.
This is like materialist atheists, like Richard Dawkins, who say there is nothing beyond what we can detect with our five senses, just the cold indifferent universe, we act only according to our DNA, we merely dance to our DNA - there is no evil or good.
Yet Dawkins and other materialistic atheists claim all religion, God, and Believers are immoral and evil.