One’s own beliefs are so deep. The hardest thing is to keep synthesizing in new information. Doubling down is the easiest thing to do. Sometimes it helps to “pretend as if” the other voices are right and play chess with it. You end up with some very uncomfortable truths sometimes, and sometimes a change of perspective adds to the truth you know. And it hurts.
It hurts me the most about Rush Limbaugh. I’m shocked re Levin but I wasn’t emotionally invested in him. I had trouble listening to him.
But just play along, what if these radio hosts are doing someone’s bidding? What if they always had been? It really hurts me about Rush, but I see it now, the new facts make a lot of logical sense and explain a lot of other things about Rush in the past.
I
The one I remember the most is the Sandra Fluke incident. He had to know that his comments would hurt him and help Fluke.
I think what happened there, and on other occasions in the past was no "fluke".
He is what he claims to be: an entertainer. However, every once and a while he says enough sensible things to have an opinion that the nation starts listening too, and then he blows a raspberry.
Too coincidental and convenient.
Should he rename himself Emmanuel Goldstein?
Astounding post!
And not to dismiss your thoughts on Rush, but your first paragraph is great advice on how to go through life.
Changing perspectives can definitely add to the truth.
But just play along, what if these radio hosts are doing someone’s bidding? What if they always had been?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3378862/posts?page=590#590