PREACHING TO THE CHOIR

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If we hear only what we want to hear, before long we are trapped in a intellectual morass known as cognitive dissonance that kills our ability to think outside the box and expand our intellectual horizons.

It does mean that we should be willing to do our own research to prove or disprove what we are told, and be able to defend our positions with facts not feelings. Although most of the arguments promoting utopian ideologies are purely emotion based, this type of thinking appeals to far too many of the intellectually lazy.

We are well served to provide a healthy dose of provable facts that cause the multitude of fence setters and conformists to look a bit beyond before they buy into the socialist lie.