Independent Thinking vs the Internet
Today we live in the world of cyberspace and its glorious opinions and views laced with redundant cheerleading and hype. Also when those are the norms, then the small few that have an underlying basis and solid information are incasts or outcasts because it is KUDOS if it is positive and Oh lord scumbag moron if it is remotely negative.
To know for sure, a possible negative that cannot be answered will be followed by attacking the messenger with any possible twisted information possible. Facts and an underlying basis are enemies to the pumpers and cheerleaders because you wont do as they say and load up with your money. Independent though causes you to make considerations on your own merit and not theirs. This is a sin on the Internet especially in the arena of trading stocks.
The internet is nothing more than lip service from someone that could be nothing more that renting bowling alleys to kids that hide under concealed aliases. Thinking for yourself is prohibited and some refuse to want to particularly encourage it because it goes against their agenda for people to buy, buy, buy. Instead they want us to live in a cyber-culture in which irrational, uncritical conformity of thought is to be the norm and accepted:
* Hypsters, cheerleaders and so forth demand unquestioning obedience and fail terribly in their responsibility to encourage independent thought or rationalization. These types play off publicizing their moral values or the ability to stand up for their beliefs thus protecting their credibility but you dare not do the same. It is a do as I do and if you don?t you shall be punished.
* People that fail to teach themselves to apply critical thinking fall prey to obedience and mindless memorization of supposed facts of another voice on line redundantly driving home their buy, buy buy message.
* If you dare think independently then your behavior is consider to be outdated behavior and values and that you are both individually and socially destructive to yourself, not to mention their investment.
* Cheerleaders and Hypsters that manipulate the Internet media will lie routinely to cover up their misdoings and do anything to get buying into a stock and post redundnatly they hype.
* The Cheerleaders and Hypsters always present biased information and superficial "news" because if you ask a question or challenge it you are scum of the earth and you will be attacked.
* Thus these types resort to personal attacks about gender, age, racial, ethnic and geographical location thus portraying violence and stupidity as an acceptable solution to the stock's problems which unfocuses off the stock to your reasoning and thoughts to kill the credibility of your question or post.
* These types will also offer free advise and offer simplistic solutions to your complex personal problems not to mention great financial advise like BUY!
* They refuse to yield to demands and questions no matter what rights get trampled in their wake of personal bashing because anything goes to get the buying so the price of the stock will go up.
* They will also used any type of intimidation, censorship, threat and force of law at their disposal to silence any independent thought that goes against their agenda.
It is a Grim picture I know but not a hopeless cause nor the end of civilization as we know it. The Internet is getting more and more savvy in reading and interpreting the forces that post. More and more individuals, are making valuable contributions to rational and independent thinking. Most are consider bashers but they strive forward anyway.
The goal of each investor is to bring together these "pieces of the puzzle" and provide yourself with information you can use to:
* become more independent of what you see and hear before you invest your hard earned money
* question all assumptions, beliefs, and values and make sure you have a solid underlying basis for what you believe to be irrational and rational
* become more skilled at standing up for your beliefs while still being tolerant and fair-minded about the beliefs of others however for this you will get flamed
* encourage everyone to think for themselves prior to investing hard earned money.
* Step up to the plate and become more active in the struggle for rational, critical and independent thinking to be acceptable and not support the belittlement of someone who mere asks a question.
The constitution and the freedom of speech right is designed so we don?t always agree with each other nor do we always agree with the speakers and writers both positive or negative on a stock. That's as it should be. If everyone agreed, not much independent thinking would get done and we all would be nothing but sheep for the fleecing
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." - e. e. cummings "A Poet's Advice to Students"
When questions are not answered and personal attacks reign, you have to ask yourself what about the question was so disturbing. You also have to wonder is this personal attacker hiding something they do not want brought out. Remember, once you buy into it, (Hype, story or personal attacks) you can loose your backside in a heartbeat.
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Gary Swancey |
