The world needs you to see it with fresh eyes
1-"Professor Anne O'Dwyer taught me about cognitive dissonance - the psychological discomfort which occurs when you're confronted with a set of facts suggesting that what you're doing or believing is irrational or stupid. You pay $10 to go to a movie, and the movie is pretty bad. But rather than admit that you wasted $10, there's a tendency to say it isn't wasn't really so bad: the acting was impressive, the special effects looked really realistic - whatever you need to tell yourself to convince yourself that you got your money's worth. You want to feel like you're not a sucker. We paper over the cognitive dissonance in much of what we do - the fact that this clearly isn't the best way to be ordering a society, to be living a life - because we've got an awful lot invested in the route we've been pursuing. To admit that it's flawed would be too much dissonance to handle." Pick an issue which you believe the media has "papered over". Describe how you figured out you were not getting the whole truth. What was the more complex truth & why was it hidden (or more important who benefits from the partial truth & who loses? )What is the cost to you and what can you do about it?
This is a hard question to answer because if a big event happens like for example 9/11 you are given the information about what happened. It might or might not be exactly true but you get an idea of what is going on. Then you have research that others have done trying to figure out who or what was the cause for 9/11. You start getting many different stories about what is going on and you start to lose the truth because you don’t know what to believe.
2-In what way have you been encouraged to "sit back, relax, and enjoy the show" and how can you "grab the steering wheel before we go over the edge"? I don’t think that I have ever been encouraged to “sit back” I’ve always been taught to be a leader to take control and if you want something to be done right do it yourself
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