Hi forum,
I read news of a country which I have to say is not the pore
;)
It justified or supported a particular policy by quoting about
so and so who is a respectable member of society whose view is also
in support of the policy in a general sense.
In this world, there are many many other respectable or even
more respectable experts or organisations that may offer DIFFERING
or OPPOSITE views , comments or opinions and stand.
What happens if the news only report quoting from the view
of 1 of the many respectable people or organisations in
the world?
What is the CREDIBILITY of such news?
How can YOUTHS and NAIVE ones, which can be the majority, be
educated to learn and understand how to comprehend the news? How
can PLURALITY of views be heard and presented to the
public instead of spoonfeeding only 1 aspect of
the possible views in the world?
When such news is repeatedly broadcast to NAIVE people,
they may think and accept the views spoonfed to them as
the only view in the world or that the view is the only Truth
and no other options exist or there is no need to find out
what other forms of truth exist in the world.
Practice makes perfect. When one-sided 'truth' is repeated
over and over, Naive people may take that as the Truth
and whole truth and nothing else but the truth. Remember , the best
IQ person's archiles tendon is still his psychology.
How can the Naive and Young ones be Enlightened to lead
them out of Darkness and IGNORANCE?
again, I re-iterate that this kind of news is what I read
overseas , I did not read it in the Pore.
;)
Hope to get some advise on the above.
i'm afraid you sounded a bit ambiguous but i gather you wanted
to know how we can prevent ourselves from becoming one-dimensional
thinking.
you already know part of the answer, i.e. open ourselves to
various sources of viewpoint. with the internet we can have free
and limitless access of info.
the other part of the answer is to think and to have an open
mind. the pluarity of views will show up the pros and cons and
different shades of any issues or things we would then be able to
consider them and subsequently make our own independent choices.
but then do remember to keep our mind open for changes for things
don't remain unchange forever!