The opinions and positions represented by public opinion are not important. The authenticity of the information and the personal opinions supported by it are the most important.
Because opposition to any aspect of public opinion will in fact lead to opposition to the message behind it. This makes this anti-public opinion attitude become anti-information irrational.
For example, they oppose public opinion and believe that public opinion is manipulated. However, in China, compared with official institutions, the information provided by public opinion is more reliable.
Oppose the media, but there is no other outlet except the media.
Oppose the randomness of rumors on the Internet, but there is no richer information than the Internet.
Against the rigidity and stereotypes of books, there is no more rigorous knowledge than books.
Therefore, showing opposition to public opinion in attitude, the result is like the person upstairs "only trusting his own judgment". The problem is that this "trust your own judgment" without information leads to assumptions and rejection of any information. If you accept information, you become only accepting the information you believe. As a result, "conspiracy theories" have become popular in the name of so-called anti-public opinion, independent thinking, and "only trusting your own judgment (only trusting the information you accept)".
The landlord may know the difference between these, anti-public opinion is just anti-opinion rather than anti-information. Information facts can be questioned and tested.
What is created in the film is only exaggerated manipulation of public opinion, which leads to many logical flaws, such as doubts from the CIA, such as the signing of actors, such as many people in the filming process, such as the number of films is only one, and the rest are all. There are various reports. And the reporters in front do not exist, and the CIA FBI border guards have given feedback on the falsification of information. More such as processing, editing, and adding effects to the film. And the American smile of the old woman receiving the presidential coat at the airport does not have the embarrassment, awkwardness, stiffness and jerkyness of foreigners in a grand venue.
There are many flaws. But as you can see, because of your theoretical denial of public opinion, many people have aggravated the popular conspiracy theories in the world. For example, the market likes to emphasize foreign media, likes to affirm themselves from the denial of others, but there is absolutely no channel for affirming their own value from their own perspective. . This is pathological in terms of value judgments (ie, public opinion).
2012-11-02 15:17:48 Mybane's
opposition to public opinion does not equal opposition to the media.
Public opinion includes not only the media, but also public opinion.
The result of equating public opinion with the media will lead to a refusal of information, thereby turning so-called independent thinking into prejudice.
Only by looking at the public opinion as public opinion can you have an independent thinker who is different from the common opinion in the world.
Finally, in everyday life, there is no need to oppose the media and information for the sake of public opinion. We oppose the media because of the inaccuracy of its information, not its public opinion. Because information really determines the composition of our opinions, and the opinions contained in public opinion can be examined rationally.
From time to time, anti-China propaganda infiltrates us because of its patriotism and love for China, but its concealment of information makes us choose the Internet with rich information.
As for the information-rich, unverifiable state, leading people to choose favorable information for their own opinion. I think this is also a competition between information and evidence, or a competition of logic and opinions, rather than panic about the diversity of opinions and prejudice.
2012-11-02 15:23:08
The rigor of Mybane's logic is a tool for us to make empirical judgments and thinking based on basic information, which is difficult for us to face the viewpoints brought by different information.
The authenticity of information fundamentally manipulates public opinion. Just as language exists to manipulate thought and discourse. Pure public opinion anxiety, like pure discourse anxiety, is putting the cart before the horse.
Only after public opinion has become a long-term state, complex, prejudice, camp, emotion, and doctrine, can public opinion evade the authenticity of information about an event and independently affect society, politics, and culture.
2012-11-02 15:35:50
The real danger of Mybane's "public opinion" is not to deceive independent thinkers. The number of public opinion is overcome independently, the opinion of public opinion is overcome by thinking, and the information of public opinion is supervised by empirical test.
Public opinion cannot be treated as a harm to independent thinkers, it is an overreaction to the harmfulness of "public opinion".
Regarding the harm of public opinion to independent thinkers, as long as thinkers maintain high enough vigilance, self-examination and rationality, such public opinion will not cause profound harm to independent thinkers. The harm of public opinion is not a defect of human nature or cognition, and public opinion is not an obstacle to human nature that is difficult to overcome. If public opinion is a problem of that level, then public opinion loses the need for discussion, because it does not exist any technical operation. sex.
What makes public opinion meaningful can only be the operability of public opinion. That is to say, public opinion can be overcome by independent thinkers, and the harm of public opinion is manifested in the incitement and promotion of irrational people, so that public opinion has a large enough influence. The influence of public opinion on irrational people does not require the inspection of information, the rigor of opinions, nor the need for independent thinking. As long as public opinion is disguised as "the public" and "the majority", irrational people will Illusion of truth in numbers, security in debate, and moral superiority.
2012-11-02 15:40:08 Mybane
If public opinion is inoperable and is a natural flaw of human beings, then the "harm" of such public opinion becomes a human concern corresponding to humanistic concern. Regardless of whether they are independent thinkers or not, everyone suffers from the so-called "empirical bias" that is inevitable in knowledge.
Using "public opinion" to condemn the untruth of the other party's views is like intellectual communism, denying the logical efforts of people's views, and any effort is ineffective, you and I are on the same level. Such communism and egalitarianism can only lead to the denial of labor itself and thinking itself.
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