"For in the end, [Huxley] was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking." --Neil Postman

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Easy Pick

As I was scrolling to previews blogs of other students within the last few days and I noticed the name of the same video I saw “ Why you think you're right- even if you're wrong” be in their blog post.

The video is discussing how us, human being, are sometimes not trying hard enough or not pursuing to find more information. It becomes ironic how many people picked the first topic that was on the list of videos. It was simple, the first one there to grab our eyes, and just one click to watch it. There was absolutely no need of watching the other videos to find more interests. I mean, we already just watched one, that should be enough, right?

The more evidence and information you are willing to receive will create a different perspective of your original opinion. You have to be open about there being more to something than just the basic grounds. Writers have retain enough information to argue the opposing point in a argumentative essay. Daniel H. Cohen in "For Argument's Sake" states that human naturally have arguments and perceived it as a 'war'. Win or lose. Right and wrong. Personally I argue a lot with people about anything but I also try to listen to their reasoning behind their claim. Sometimes not being right, is a new ability to learn something new.

In class when you get your math test back graded, you see the mistake you made by forgetting the negative sign on the equation and you lost 5 points off your test, you take note of preventing to not forget any negative signs for future problems. Learning from errors or mistakes in essential but you have to understand that you weren't right to learn from it. Understand that you weren't correct but still willing to know why and how you are wrong. Everyone becomes so defensive about being wrong that they are willing to be a keeper and not a seeker. Fear of being incorrect that stops a seeker discovering new information. - Nayeli Gracian

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