Something inspirational: "Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear." BARNEY FRANK
Something inspirational:
"Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear."
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I have no doubt you can choose to be both an activist and objective, so my view is Mr Frank is tending to generalise here.
You can, but if I was to bring my gut in here, I believe Barney Frank has a point.
We do tend to seek out information from sources that reinforce what we know. Narcissists tends to work that way.
Even when we're being told to the contrary, we still continue to defend ourselves.