Comments on: Al Gore: The Assault On Reason http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/ As The Media Watches The World, We Watch The Media Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:38:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Alice in Wonderland http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/#comment-2077 Sat, 26 May 2007 19:16:47 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/#comment-2077 Commentary and opinion are alive and well. What we are missing is discourse - the exchange and evolution of ideas to form a reasoned response. I'm tired of vegetative position spewers who do nothing but fill the room with noise. Where do I find a news channel or website that examines arguments against fact and then forms reasoned opinions and acts upon them. Give me that and you can save this country. Otherwise we are doomed to heart disease from junk food politics. Al Gore tries to do that but to be honest its hard reading. I've been bounced out of the book five times already by his unengaging, pedantic arguments. Surely reason can be presented in a more entertaining way. Or maybe it can't - and thats really the problem. Commentary and opinion are alive and well. What we are missing is discourse - the exchange and evolution of ideas to form a reasoned response. I’m tired of vegetative position spewers who do nothing but fill the room with noise.

Where do I find a news channel or website that examines arguments against fact and then forms reasoned opinions and acts upon them. Give me that and you can save this country. Otherwise we are doomed to heart disease from junk food politics.

Al Gore tries to do that but to be honest its hard reading. I’ve been bounced out of the book five times already by his unengaging, pedantic arguments. Surely reason can be presented in a more entertaining way. Or maybe it can’t - and thats really the problem.

]]> by: Dwight Bobson http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/#comment-2010 Wed, 23 May 2007 17:05:22 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/#comment-2010 Yes, it is the education of youth that matters but "the system" cannot take the blame. It is the parents that must take responsibility. Adults must be role models. Teachers are basically wardens and parents will not let them have discipline in the classroom unless the kids are in private schools. No child left behind is a government attempt to control information. By its dogma, there is a right question and a right answer. What a child needs is critical thinking skills so the child can evaluate what makes sense, is logical, is reasonable, is backed by evidence, can withstand argument and debate on some intelligent level. As Neil Postman said, America is entertaining itself to death. Today he might add that we are also feeding ourselves to death. Reason has not been assaulted; it has been bludgeoned and beaten to near death. Yes, it is the education of youth that matters but “the system” cannot take the blame. It is the parents that must take responsibility. Adults must be role models. Teachers are basically wardens and parents will not let them have discipline in the classroom unless the kids are in private schools.
No child left behind is a government attempt to control information. By its dogma, there is a right question and a right answer.
What a child needs is critical thinking skills so the child can evaluate what makes sense, is logical, is reasonable, is backed by evidence, can withstand argument and debate on some intelligent level.
As Neil Postman said, America is entertaining itself to death. Today he might add that we are also feeding ourselves to death.
Reason has not been assaulted; it has been bludgeoned and beaten to near death.

]]> by: Robert Sprinkel http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/#comment-2003 Wed, 23 May 2007 02:45:49 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/#comment-2003 While neither I or your other commentators have read Mr. Gore's book, it can be assumed that it was written by Mr. Gore. He has a talent for this type of writing. Thankfully the U.S. media is not state owned and is therefore not responsible for airing what Mr. Gore thinks should be aired. The dumbing down of the American people is due to their watching TV, at its best junk food for the mind, not what they watch. Americans are less and less responsible for their own acts. Mr. Gore's statist, nanny state approach is all too familiar to most of us. He is selling the victim mentality in his book that has been sold to so many in our country. This is greater narcotic than any imported substance. The result is a country filled with people growingly convinced they are not responsible for their own acts. Mr. Gore feeds this belief. The internet is the open channel for the people, but the problem with it is that people lock on to the blogs with which they are in agreement. Accordingly, there is not much hope that public enlightenment and wise decisions will come via the internet. Finger pointers should point at our education system and not the media. A well educated public wouldn't even own a television set. To see what were trying to do correct the situation you may wish to look at www.leaders-for-liberty.org. Robert Sprinkel While neither I or your other commentators have read Mr. Gore’s book, it can be assumed that it was written by Mr. Gore. He has a talent for this type of writing.

Thankfully the U.S. media is not state owned and is therefore not responsible for airing what Mr. Gore thinks should be aired. The dumbing down of the American people is due to their watching TV, at its best junk food for the mind, not what they watch.

Americans are less and less responsible for their own acts. Mr. Gore’s statist, nanny state approach is all too familiar to most of us. He is selling the victim mentality in his book that has been sold to so many in our country. This is greater narcotic than any imported substance. The result is a country filled with people growingly convinced they are not responsible for their own acts. Mr. Gore feeds this belief.

The internet is the open channel for the people, but the problem with it is that people lock on to the blogs with which they are in agreement. Accordingly, there is not much hope that public enlightenment and wise decisions will come via the internet.

Finger pointers should point at our education system and not the media. A well educated public wouldn’t even own a television set.

To see what were trying to do correct the situation you may wish to look at www.leaders-for-liberty.org.

Robert Sprinkel

]]> by: Cissie http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/#comment-2002 Wed, 23 May 2007 00:08:50 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/#comment-2002 It's so convenient and facile to blame the media, television, etc!! It's blaming the messenger! But if all the people who actually see through the half-truths, rubbish and lies purveyed in the media actually joined together to create a movement to change society and take over the corporations which actually control the media then the world would change overnight! This is what www.aworldtowin.net argues for. It’s so convenient and facile to blame the media, television, etc!! It’s blaming the messenger! But if all the people who actually see through the half-truths, rubbish and lies purveyed in the media actually joined together to create a movement to change society and take over the corporations which actually control the media then the world would change overnight!
This is what www.aworldtowin.net argues for.

]]> by: Poul-Hennning Kamp http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/#comment-2001 Tue, 22 May 2007 22:02:21 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/#comment-2001 In Rome it was Bread & Circus, in USA it is TV and junk food. The principle is the same however. Poul-Henning (from Denmark) In Rome it was Bread & Circus, in USA it is TV and junk food.

The principle is the same however.

Poul-Henning
(from Denmark)

]]> by: jamie http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/#comment-1997 Tue, 22 May 2007 20:55:47 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/22/al-gore-the-assault-on-reason/#comment-1997 > Is in danger of becoming? It's already happened! Most foreigners know more about what's going on in America than most Americans. Americans are too lazy to search for information. They watch a half hour of news and claim they are informed or else they proudly claim that they don't bother watching the news, like that's something only old people with no lives do. All I can say is thank the information gods for the Internet. Without it we would all be dumbasses. We must demand that it stays free from corporate and government censorship, at all costs! Also, satellite TV stations such as LINK TV and FSTV deserve our support also, they are the other lone source of information besides the Internet. I can't believe we have to fight for information...how sad is THAT? >

Is in danger of becoming? It’s already happened!

Most foreigners know more about what’s going on in America than most Americans. Americans are too lazy to search for information. They watch a half hour of news and claim they are informed or else they proudly claim that they don’t bother watching the news, like that’s something only old people with no lives do.

All I can say is thank the information gods for the Internet. Without it we would all be dumbasses. We must demand that it stays free from corporate and government censorship, at all costs! Also, satellite TV stations such as LINK TV and FSTV deserve our support also, they are the other lone source of information besides the Internet.

I can’t believe we have to fight for information…how sad is THAT?

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