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Abstraction · 61-69, M
I think education has failed to prepare people for the multi-media environment where you can choose the news to support your existing view. Critical thinking and understanding how to research for supporting evidence - things like this are sorely missing. There's an emerging trend that personal opinions are all valid.
So people are being manipulated big time on all sides of politics, alternative medicines, etc. Therefore people are 'dumb' because they do not know how to manage the information at their fingertips.
So people are being manipulated big time on all sides of politics, alternative medicines, etc. Therefore people are 'dumb' because they do not know how to manage the information at their fingertips.
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@Abstraction Democracy does ask for personal opinions, and we still live in that climate even if it has changed. If I come to think about it, in the last 20 years in how people communicate there has been something that lets them they didn't have say 25 years ago. Of course the culture will change as one now has to confront opinions they never had to then.
Opinion, it's only been the last five years where politics actually achieved manipulating this. The rest, never before has someone had health just one Google search away; I'm not saying that's health but it's better than denial and in a healthcare system struggling to meet demand it is best people learn what they can; that doesn't mean diagnosing yourself and not seeing the doctor.
Opinion, it's only been the last five years where politics actually achieved manipulating this. The rest, never before has someone had health just one Google search away; I'm not saying that's health but it's better than denial and in a healthcare system struggling to meet demand it is best people learn what they can; that doesn't mean diagnosing yourself and not seeing the doctor.