I posted this in the BOG ...

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39. I tend to trust things when I can check the math and/or the logic

in the case of Syria, I will honestly admit to a combination of apathy and ignorance. I don't know and I don't really care to learn.

Is that bad of me? How many hours am I supposed to dedicate to studying about Syria and what is going on there? And for what purpose? So I can advise a President who is not going to listen to me? So I can advise a Congressperson who is not gonna listen to me? So I can educate my neighbors who probably have even less concern about Syria than I do?

But what makes you think people who disagree with you are captive in a corporate M$M bubble?

I find that people are more captive to their own pre-suppositions which they adamantly refuse to examine. That they are captive to a worldview and they distinguish truth from falsehood by a double standard. In short, they are highly critical and doubtful to sources which challenge their worldview or have a different worldview and they are uncritically accepting of sources which affirm their worldview.

That would seem to be a default human position, but some of the debates here are basically clashing worldviews that will never be resolved. Certainly not when the actual worldview is never discussed.