Blog Prompt #3
Economics is very well represented, as you can find multiple programs each day devoted to it. Honestly, everything is quite well represented, but some things can be tougher to find than others.
While not perfect, the intellectual or philosophical perspectives of the majority of commentators is actually very diverse in the grand scheme of things. Whatever your worldview is, there are media out lets there for you. With the rise of YouTube and social media, there is a whole new media out there. While I personally don't believe most things coming out of the mainstream media, I do appreciate that people are allowed to have different opinions and people don't get silenced or thrown in prison like they do in other parts of the world if they speak out of line. See:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/saudi-court-sentences-poet-to-death-for-renouncing-islam
And also:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-sentences-free-speech-activist-to-six-years-in-prison-1448617679
I have found that too often, people who have only ever known freedom take it for granted and don't take advantage of the access we have to such a great wealth of information.
As for which perspectives are stigmatized or scorned, that will depend entirely on what your watching and reading. The key is to read multiple articles/watch multiple videos and know both sides of the argument, then come to a conclusion rather than blindly believe everything the mainstream media is telling us.
There are certain topics that are receive a high level of scorn, for whatever reason. More people should research Operation Mockingbird, the BBC covering up Jimmy Savile's crimes for 30 years, the Dennis Hastert scandal and the multiple instances of people going into third world countries and committing atrocities, but hiding behind "good intentions." At the time, saying any of those things were true would result in a great deal of scorn and stigmatization.
If I were to go out and say in public these things were true, I'd get called an idiot and conspiracy theorist. Now that they have been proven without doubt, it is okay to speak of them publicly. Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes...
While not perfect, the intellectual or philosophical perspectives of the majority of commentators is actually very diverse in the grand scheme of things. Whatever your worldview is, there are media out lets there for you. With the rise of YouTube and social media, there is a whole new media out there. While I personally don't believe most things coming out of the mainstream media, I do appreciate that people are allowed to have different opinions and people don't get silenced or thrown in prison like they do in other parts of the world if they speak out of line. See:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/saudi-court-sentences-poet-to-death-for-renouncing-islam
And also:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-sentences-free-speech-activist-to-six-years-in-prison-1448617679
I have found that too often, people who have only ever known freedom take it for granted and don't take advantage of the access we have to such a great wealth of information.
As for which perspectives are stigmatized or scorned, that will depend entirely on what your watching and reading. The key is to read multiple articles/watch multiple videos and know both sides of the argument, then come to a conclusion rather than blindly believe everything the mainstream media is telling us.
There are certain topics that are receive a high level of scorn, for whatever reason. More people should research Operation Mockingbird, the BBC covering up Jimmy Savile's crimes for 30 years, the Dennis Hastert scandal and the multiple instances of people going into third world countries and committing atrocities, but hiding behind "good intentions." At the time, saying any of those things were true would result in a great deal of scorn and stigmatization.
If I were to go out and say in public these things were true, I'd get called an idiot and conspiracy theorist. Now that they have been proven without doubt, it is okay to speak of them publicly. Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes...
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