I just happened to find this article. As much as I am disinclined to label things or people, most especially myself, this does a pretty good job of hitting me where I am.
Haven’t blogged much. I’m afraid all I would blog about would be political and I’m not sure I want to go there…here… what?
It is amazing to me how people can watch/listen to the exact same debate/speech/ad and take such completely different perceptions from it. I was once in a small group where we watched the movie “Leap of Faith” with Steve Martin. At the end, I was flabbergasted to find that at least one person was 100% convinced of the outcome of the movie being 100% the opposite of what I thought was going on. Had we not sat and watched the movie at the same time, I would have questioned if he’d watched the same movie at all.
It is a constant endeavor for me to try to watch/listen to every debate/speech/ad as objectively as I possibly can. I want to identify spin and I want to be able to poke holes in illogical and misleading assertions. I know that I am incapable of catching everything, but I’m also certain that others are not nearly as meticulous in their discernment.
So, how are we supposed to set a course from here?
