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That’s a false dilemma; as long as I’m not resigned to hopeless infotainment addiction, I don’t have to believe the “least bad” reporting about events that don’
by jpttsn 8y ago
That’s a false dilemma; as long as I’m not resigned to hopeless infotainment addiction, I don’t have to believe the “least bad” reporting about events that don’t concern me.
- pjc50 8y agoIt may not matter what you believe, but it matters what the aggregate total of your fellow voters believe.
- jpttsn 8y agoIs your point that most voters are hopeless infotainment addicts?
- UncleMeat 8y agoI am absolutely 100% confident that the success rate of individuals with no training doing their own research is way way way lower than the success rate of the academic community consensus.
- jpttsn 8y agoThat’s not what I’m arguing against. I’m not claiming to be a better truth-seeker than the academic community. I am claiming that a lot of this truth has no meaning to me, and I’m comfortable with not seeking it. If that sounds horrible, consider a special case like celebrity gossip. Am I better than the magazines at getting to the bottom of it? Probably not. Does that fact implore me to seek their “knowledge”? I distrust many media accounts of events. I don’t believe their opposites either. And I don’t “do my own research”. I just embrace ignorance of things that don’t matter to me.
- mistermann 8y agoIn the aggregate, or in all cases?