True Enough Draft

From Farhood’s analysis it is clear that humans in this modern era believe whatever is in-line with their preexisting views.  Naturally we are drawn to things that click with what we like. This is how we make friends and choose what activities we participate in etc. Because modern mass media is so vast there are many sources from which we can choose our information.  What Manjoo highlights is the fact that America is growing apart and becoming more partisan. People are sticking to sources that tend to approve of their views. Due to the large array of media that people view daily, whether it is the TV, internet, radio people feel as if whatever they hear that opposes their view, whether consciously or not is false, so thus they stick to the media sources that support them

A great thinker JS Mills once wrote in his book On Liberty  “To an ordinary man, however, his own preference, thus supported, is not only a perfectly satisfactory reason but the only one he generally has for any of his notions of morality, taste, or propriety.” This was evident in the tests that were conducted involving static and the other test involving what sources of news certain people rely on. We all have unconscious biases, and they manifest themselves in different ways. As Farhood demonstrated in the Dartmouth game we tend to see, whether in actuality it is there or not, what we would like to see.