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| Jimmy Biscuit | Posted: Sep 25, 2010 - 08:09 |
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 Level: 0 CS Original | A very good friend exposed me to the work of CTersw...he believes in all of it, NWO, FEMA, chem trails, 9/11, masons etc... Most of our conversations now involve heated disagreements with regular links being sent back and forth. This website has been absolutely valuable in helping me debunk the nonsense he spews. Anyway, during a recent exchange I sent him over a couple of links to this website - his argument having read them was that he can't trust information that is written down, as he could never truly know who the writer was. This is clearly a nonsense argument as it doesn't really matter who writes articles, providing that the citatation and references to source material are present and clear...which they always are on this site. In any respect, I dont think this is the real reason why my friend, like many CTers, generally dismiss written articles and embrace you tube videos. The real reason I think is that articles just dont have the same emotional impact as videos and that videos are so much more accessible and easy to digest for people who are not experienced in reviewing complex texts. I believe that the emotional impact of CTs is the main driving force behind most CTers beliefs, the buzz they get, combined with the belief they know somethin we Sheeple don't is central to the maintenance of their wierd world biews. The fact that written articles are the best way to review a complex matter in detail, as they allow you to take it at your own pace and strutinise claims in far more depth is beside the point because if CTers cared about this DEPTH of analysis, they wouldn't hold the beliefs they did. | |||||
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| sorry | Posted: Sep 25, 2010 - 08:27 |
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Level: 12 CS Original | Music. Sound Effects. Visual Manipulation. Lack of Clarity. Evolutionary Advantage. Videos have a range of properties that appeal to emotion, illogic, lack of critical thinking skills, and simplistic perceptual reasoning. Reading text requires complex perceptual reasoning. One must not only see the words - they must also be able to process them in a cognitively mature manner. This requires a degree of focus and attention - something many children, adolescents, and adults are accused of lacking. A video also does not have to cite sources that can be looked up in a catalog, whereas a written document making claims frequently will have a reference list / bibliography. We are not born with the ability to read and comprehend in such a manner. Visual data, on the other hand, is not a language per se and is processed using fundamental processes. We simply see and make decisions on this data using whatever thinking skills we have. I'm not entirely against YouTube. I go there to watch news clips and demonstrations of phenomena. Where I disagree with YouTube is when it is used as a soap box for somebody's agenda, parlaying supposed facts without backing them up. | |||||
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| Nanos | Posted: Sep 25, 2010 - 08:55 |
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 Level: 0 CS Original | > Where I disagree with YouTube is when it is used as a soap box for somebody's agenda, Likewise. I particularly dislike debates where the other person responds repeatedly with links to YouTube videos to counter my written arguments, as if they have no ability to debate themselves. (From what I can gather, I'm pretty sure many people don't even read everything I've written when debating with them, let alone necessarly understand it!) I remember once testing that idea by a carefully worded poll, where I said something like: Nuclear, power, yes or no ? Yes - Yes I'm for nuclear power And then elsewhere on the same forum I asked: Yes - Yes I'm against nuclear power. You would expect the results to be very similar, only they wasn't, proving that the same people didn't pay attention to what was actually said, but on what they thought was said. Further tests tended to indicate that people only saw the words 'yes' and 'no' and ignored just about everything else. | |||||
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