I’ve been a lurker for a few years. Created an account 5 months ago. First post here. This is a really nice entry Obdicut.

You had to step out of your physical environment to gain exposure to different view points. It would be nice to think that in today’s age of the intertubes, it would be easier to search out that exposure. Yet people still tend to flock to their safe corners of the online world insulating themselves and validating their preconceived notions. Similarly, not everyone (most people?) has an awakening epiphany while away at school.

So I’ll take this entry a little further. How do you get people to think critically? How do you get people to understand statistics? A person’s core beliefs should be rooted on a strong, well thought out basis. How do you get someone to change their mind when they refuse to acknowledge actually facts? Because that is what is going on in today’s political environment. There has always been obfuscation for political and partisan gain. The problem now is that large swaths of the electorate is willfully ignorant because it “feels” right.