Some Thoughts on the Logic of Talking Heads

[babylonsister]

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Some Thoughts on the Logic of Talking Heads
Richard L. Franklin

I turned on a TV set yesterday to catch the news. The first choice was a CNN channel because they do only news 24 hours daily. The talking head that appeared on the screen was solemnly declaring he was about to discuss 'a very serious matter' concerning actions by Barrack Obama.

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As these and other thoughts and memories raced through my mind, I flipped from one TV news channel to another, covering at least a half dozen news programs. Every last one was going on and on and on about Obama's despicable 'plagiarism'.

I was dumbfounded. I could barely take in what I was hearing. Then something strange happened. I suddenly had an epiphany. A man was actually being pilloried for using the words of great Americans. I then asked myself if that truly was the crime he was being accused of. Was he perhaps being savaged by every talking head in America for stealing the question, 'Are these only words?' My mind swirled with the nuances and possibilities.

I have long mourned the fact that rational thinking is not taught at any level whatsoever during the school years of America's young people. This explosion of anger and disgust toward Obama on seemingly every talk show and news program of America was not only totally irrational, it also bordered on cruel and obscene.

If elections were honest in America, this kind of mindless blowup could conceivably determine who would be the next president of America. In other words, a blatant, obvious fallacy could conceivably sink one candidate and raise up another to the presidency in a close race.

Don't ever tell me that the total lack courses in rational thinking in American education is no great loss.

[hobbit709]

1. You're combining "logic" and "talking heads" in the same sentence?

[angrycarpenter]

2. Teaching rational thinking would destroy the mission of education

To produce followers. How many times in school were we required to accept something as the truth. Answering different than what the book said got a bad grade or a paddling. It is not rational to allow yourself to be pushed around.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Stop Making Sense!

sorry, couldn't resist. :hi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Making_Sense