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Originally Posted by JustJess
roachboy... I think you've got the point there. Both of them
- what's their point, their goal, their bias? But as a matter of practicality, we must also limit our sources of information - we can only take in so much to make one informed decision. If we truly considered all sides of all problems, and did the research to back it up, we would get nothing done, ever. That is why we need others' opinions.
Experts are useful for summing up quantifiable information.
There is certainly too much information (and that which passes for it) floating around! In a "simpler" world it wasn't necessarily easier to learn more, faster, but it was easier to believe what you learned.
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You don't need "experts" to give you what you need. You just look at what is important to you, focus on that. The rest, you find sources that present both sides make
YOUR opinion and stand by it. If a source comes along and challenges one of your views look at the challenge and decide if it does influence you more.
I am quite happy making up my own mind on issues and things of import to me. The rest, I may have an opinion on, but I don't care enough to worry about it, because it is not that important to me.
You can go nuts trying to worry about everything, likewise you can go nuts giving yourself over to how "experts" deem things should be. In the end the only person living your life is you. YOU make the decisions you have to live with, YOU live with the consequences of your own actions. Therefore, you need to do what is right for you, not what someone else tells you.
One big problem today is everyone wants the government to make the decisions for them, wants the government to protect them, wants government to just be there..... so they can blame government and not face consequences for their actions.
"My kid just got busted for having a gun at school" Thus it is the school's fault, society's fault, government's fault, but not mine. Hence PC, hence, lawsuits for everything, hence making issues like smoking, trans-fat bigger than they truly are. "Focus on those, keep hate alive, don't see how your wages buy less and less in quantity
and quality, don't see the fact we have deficits everywhere, don't see that jobs are being exported.... see only the issues we deem important and let us tell you how to think about them."
By economically keeping you living paycheck to paycheck and bombarding you with consistent negativity, the government psychologists (any psychologist really) knows that the people as a whole will break and give their decision making to the government and to a lesser degree the media.... that people will continue to rely more and more on government and to lesser degrees the media to tell them how to think, what to do.
Hence, the constant attacks on media. If government takes the media out, or gets the majority who are breaking to distrust media enough.... that leaves just the government for people to turn to.
I know sounds paranoid, but, that's
my opinion and view. I don't have to live paranoid and refuse to. I focus on positive energy, make my reality as positive as possible and believe that my theory is either nuts or people will break but not the way government wants them to, but rather positively and taking back their choices.