Thinking Critically

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” -Ghandi

I feel that we're currently at the ridicule stage. In the past six months or so, there have been more attacks on critical thinkers than ever before. Actually, that’s good news - because it's a sign that the people in charge realize that lots of us are becoming aware of the propaganda. Simply disregarding the minority opinion won’t work anymore. Nowadays, the mainstream media is actually reporting about alleged "conspiracy theories" that would not have appeared in the press years ago.

In this NY Times article above, the author, Maggie Koerth-Baker, purports that everything on the news is 100% fact, and that anyone who questions any aspect of the news is misguided (or perhaps even has psychological issues). Of course, I don't think even Ms. Baker genuinely believes what she is writing.

It's rather encouraging to me that the mainstream media is now putting out absolutely laughable articles in attempt to silence critical thinkers. It's just more confirmation to me that the news is lying to us. The reason that the media puts out fluff pieces trying to make themselves seem trustworthy is to cover up their own lies.