| | in a time of increasingly difficult and polarizing opinions, my heart felt glad to read this by Donald Miller (author of Blue Like Jazz):
"I think there is a level of maturity that’s hard to achieve by the media age that we live in. I think what happens is that in order to sell advertising, talking heads, 24/7 news channels have to create a lot of tension because tension is interesting. And so what we do is we try to create polar-opposite opinions and then want them to clash. So you’re either Republican or Democrat, and those are binary opposites. There is no middle ground. There’s no in-between, because that’s not interesting. What happens is people aren’t savvy to that—they fall into that. They start believing the message that that’s the way the world is divided. And they pick a side and defend it very passionately without realizing their whole mindset has been manipulated by a machine that sells advertising. But the truth doesn’t work that way. The truth isn’t that black and white. The truth isn’t that opinionated—and not only that, but we don’t really know all sides of an argument. We need to decide the truth isn’t that polarized."
i think we all have a lot more in common than we think we do.
www.jesusforpresident.com
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| | Posted 9/10/2008 11:22 AM - 56 Views - 6 eProps - 4 comments
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