cyrnel

It so depends on the individual. Some are amazing, some completely stink. Through their position and power each can bring about significant good or ill.

Averages don't apply when you're dealing with the individual. They're human, so assume your attitude can provoke a response. My youthful disposition was very negative. Always assuming I was about to help fill a quota. I was often correct. Attitude can go a long way toward knocking down defenses, negative reactions, and their consequences.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195