RE: Media
April 20, 2017 at 8:46 pm
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2017 at 8:48 pm by bennyboy.)
When I was young, I thought gay guys were pretty gross and strange; I might, if I'd ever met a gay man, avoided him or even shouted an insult at him. That's because I lived in a small town with a bunch of factory workers, loggers, and so on, and there was not yet an internet. However, as the internet has evolved, and I've been able to see the real people and their contributions, their vital personalities, and so on, I've come to value them all. Many are right here, and I've come to respect them-- for their uniqueness, and for their similarity to the rest of us.
It is amazing to me that people like Harris, who have access to ALL the information on the internet, could manage not to evolve their opinions in the same way I have-- in part because I'm a stubborn person and naturally very resistant to changing my ideas. How powerful is that particular brand of ignorance which, when presented with almost all the ideas and information that have occurred to mankind in many decades, can still manage to keep itself in the dark.
It is amazing to me that people like Harris, who have access to ALL the information on the internet, could manage not to evolve their opinions in the same way I have-- in part because I'm a stubborn person and naturally very resistant to changing my ideas. How powerful is that particular brand of ignorance which, when presented with almost all the ideas and information that have occurred to mankind in many decades, can still manage to keep itself in the dark.
