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I have no idea why people have a hard time comprehending that facts are always seen through opinions and worldviews from people who are all unique and have uniq

I have no idea why people have a hard time comprehending that facts are always seen through opinions and worldviews from people who are all unique and have unique interpretations of what they observe. Everything is bias and eye witnesses of one event will have different descriptions of what is happening. Also why do people struggle with basics like primary, secondary and tertiary sources? They expect all three to be one and the same.

fzeroracer 6y ago
There's been this large push on the internet towards this idea of complete objectivity from my experience. Reviews shouldn't be about your experience, it should be about the product. News shouldn't be about perspective or opinion, it should be about objective fact. You can't tell one side of a story without being perfectly impartial about the other (even if the other is completely nonsensical). The problem with this is that you delude yourself into thinking that you're somehow more objective or logical, which then just makes your own bias cloud your view further because obviously anything that doesn't fit into your world view is illogical. As you've mentioned the interpretation and context matters a lot. Every site, video etc has some sort of bias associated with it and some sort of narrative it's trying to push. That's the nature of humanity, the key thing is understanding what it's trying to do and balance that out with other sources that have different perspectives. The mainstream media has a very obvious bias towards the status quo, for example. That much should be apparent because the mainstream media was born in the status quo and movement away from it will harm them. Alternative sources of media often have a bias towards a very specific narrative and will shape their entire channel / site etc around that narrative. The thing that annoys me the most about this situation is that people automatically take said alternative sources at face value because they conflate non-MSM == higher truthiness when usually there's just as much bias there as anywhere else, it's just bias you agree with.
GoblinSlayer 6y ago
Brainwashing isn't really bias, very very remote similarity.

fzeroracer 6y ago

There's been this large push on the internet towards this idea of complete objectivity from my experience. Reviews shouldn't be about your experience, it should be about the product. News shouldn't be about perspective or opinion, it should be about objective fact. You can't tell one side of a story without being perfectly impartial about the other (even if the other is completely nonsensical). The problem with this is that you delude yourself into thinking that you're somehow more objective or logical, which then just makes your own bias cloud your view further because obviously anything that doesn't fit into your world view is illogical. As you've mentioned the interpretation and context matters a lot. Every site, video etc has some sort of bias associated with it and some sort of narrative it's trying to push. That's the nature of humanity, the key thing is understanding what it's trying to do and balance that out with other sources that have different perspectives. The mainstream media has a very obvious bias towards the status quo, for example. That much should be apparent because the mainstream media was born in the status quo and movement away from it will harm them. Alternative sources of media often have a bias towards a very specific narrative and will shape their entire channel / site etc around that narrative. The thing that annoys me the most about this situation is that people automatically take said alternative sources at face value because they conflate non-MSM == higher truthiness when usually there's just as much bias there as anywhere else, it's just bias you agree with.

GoblinSlayer 6y ago

Brainwashing isn't really bias, very very remote similarity.