social media and forums. think it is tarnishing our manners?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Always observing, questioning, postulating, testing and learning gets you called names around here. By "not" I assume you mean going along with the conventional wisdom. The conventional wisdom is safe, but as you say, you don't learn much from it.

I mean being part of a herd. and having an absolute lack of critical thinking. Best example is all the Russian influence in the last election. Time after time, I would see Left and Right "news articles" on Facebook with the most ridiculous URLs. Just looking at the URLs alone you should know the content was garbage, but post after post by real people claiming their side is "right because here's an article that says we are" proves herd mentality is alive and well and critical thinking and consideration are dead in this country.

I could write an entire thesis on this and the Hatestream Media. No one would care. Idiocracy, here we come.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

With all due respect Tabs, you are notorious for "repeating the same messages" of impending destruction. You then conclude that if there is "no change in thinking" (meaning agreeing with your belief) makes anyone who disagrees with you an "ignorant loser". Bear in mind that there are many areas that you agree with me (see what I did there?) especially when it comes to fiscal conservatism and the position that years of deficit spending has put us in.

I applaud your confidence in yourself but disdain your high and mighty conviction that all others are ignorant losers. I encourage you to consider to let him without (this) sin cast the first stone.

Let me also remind you that he who dies with the most toys (or investments) is still dead. It is what your do with the prosperity you have achieved to help others that will be your lasting legacy. Otherwise, your body will be worm food while others dine on the riches you have stored up and left behind.

This commentary was anticipated... The fact that I mentioned "evolving" thinking indicates that I anticipated this commentary...

The essential message remains the same because the trajectory has not changed. The dynamic remains the same. Secondly my thinking has evolved as events unfold, but it is in the details.

What is happening is as if it has been scripted.

[trader220]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

I mean being part of a herd. and having an absolute lack of critical thinking. Best example is all the Russian influence in the last election. Time after time, I would see Left and Right "news articles" on Facebook with the most ridiculous URLs. Just looking at the URLs alone you should know the content was garbage, but post after post by real people claiming their side is "right because here's an article that says we are" proves herd mentality is alive and well and critical thinking and consideration are dead in this country.

I could write an entire thesis on this and the Hatestream Media. No one would care. Idiocracy, here we come.

Well said.... I laugh when I see some of these people posting on FB and citing these ridiculous sources to back their opinions up. Seriously, take a look at who you're getting your "facts" from. I read some of the so called "articles" and there is often nothing to them. I read one about fracking in the gulf two weeks ago. The headline made it sound as if they're going to pour nuclear waste into the gulf. When I read the "article" and I use that term loosely, it turned out to be whether or not the current administration was going to force the oil companies to list what's in the fracking byproduct water, the last administration didn't force them too. If you just read the headline you'd have been sure the fed was going to absolutely remove any restriction to dump anything.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by tabs

This commentary was anticipated... The fact that I mentioned "evolving" thinking indicates that I anticipated this commentary...

The essential message remains the same because the trajectory has not changed. The dynamic remains the same. Secondly my thinking has evolved as events unfold, but it is in the details.

What is happening is as if it has been scripted.

You had choices to make in 09, however your choice was to follow the same hackneyed conventional wisdom that essentially led to problem in the first place.

I kept on saying this is a new normal...that what applied yesterday no longer applies today...you still persist in trying to get back to MAGA...the word "AGAIN" means that you want to make it like it once was...and the old saying is that you can never go home again..cuase it just isn't like it once was as that was another time and place.

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by tabs

This commentary was anticipated...

1) It is an observation. Not a commentary.
2) Maybe was anticipated due to obvious fact that it is true?