Friday 14th August, blogger Leo Hickman wrote in the Ethical Living section for the Guardian, a blog entry titled Miley Cyprus the environmentalist? Don’t make me weep with despair. Hickman blasted Cyprus & co new single, a contribution to the Disney Project Green, saying that he failed to see what the message was. Readers responded to the blog with an accolade of whish-washed cynicisms, fuelling Hickman’s point.
My point is, not particularly about Hickman’s blog entry or the responses to the entry, but about how society believes that they exercise freedom of thoughts, when in fact they don’t. Vast majority of people believe everything they read, see or hear. Haste to assimilate opinions based only on the information and formulated opinions fed to them. They neither question the facts presented nor seek sufficient alternatives. Quite often following twats like Leo Hickman, who, himself lack sufficient background information to formulate rounded opinions.
Take, Saddam Hussein and the Kuwait & Iraq war. When the Kuwait war initially broke out in 1990, how many questioned on what basis did the US & UK claims of Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction? How many broadcasters explained to the general public the history of the Ottoman emperor then? And what were Hussein’s demands? Did anyone think or say: hang on, why are we fighting over a desert?
Almost twenty years on, how many people know the truths to these questions?
We simply follow the pack, whilst sitting on our over sized arses, gorging ourselves with mis-informed garbage, saying hear hear.
My point is, not particularly about Hickman’s blog entry or the responses to the entry, but about how society believes that they exercise freedom of thoughts, when in fact they don’t. Vast majority of people believe everything they read, see or hear. Haste to assimilate opinions based only on the information and formulated opinions fed to them. They neither question the facts presented nor seek sufficient alternatives. Quite often following twats like Leo Hickman, who, himself lack sufficient background information to formulate rounded opinions.
Take, Saddam Hussein and the Kuwait & Iraq war. When the Kuwait war initially broke out in 1990, how many questioned on what basis did the US & UK claims of Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction? How many broadcasters explained to the general public the history of the Ottoman emperor then? And what were Hussein’s demands? Did anyone think or say: hang on, why are we fighting over a desert?
Almost twenty years on, how many people know the truths to these questions?
We simply follow the pack, whilst sitting on our over sized arses, gorging ourselves with mis-informed garbage, saying hear hear.
2 comments:
Hear, hear!
Thank you for the affirmation David. I'd like to ask you if they will ever find a reliable biomass fuel in our life time?
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