I don’t like to pick on Americans like that, but I can totally understand, I myself left because of the culture. People like to be so proud of their so called individuality and freedom while meanwhile they associate their individuality with their ego and heir freedom with the whims of said ego.
I have no idea who Jim scammer is, but I think there problem isn’t this news or that news, it’s simply relying primarily on news no matter what the source. We live in an interconnected world, it doesn’t take much to go out and see what’s happening for yourself. The problem is that we need to shut up and listen to others, rather than just trying to force our opinions down other people’s throats.
I didn’t try to share any opinions about Syria until I made a Syrian friend. I didn’t take his opinions and make them mine either, I just used it to inform me a lot better, I never tried to argue with him about what he said that contradicted with the media and didn’t fully discount the stories of the media, I just recognize their extreme bias, and that their main goal is to maintain viewership and they’re willing to sink low to do so.
In short, I don’t assume I know everything, I’m just a perspective, and an interesting undervalued one at that.
Thanks for your crypto recommendations! It’ll be fun to check them out. I always love your comments.
Its not that I am saying americans are bad or stupid, they just have a certain slant, a certain proclivity. The Japanese have other blind spots. The Germans... The Swiss...
Americans have this unique bent, where they believe the TV people; when the TV people basically do not explain anything, they just tell you the result. And thus, many americans think they know something, but all the know is the talking point, and that's it.
Jim Cramer is a money news person, who did such thing as saying that Bear Stearns is strong and stable and everyone should invest in it, the day before it crashed. And he has continuously made such catastrophic calls. But, he is still on the TV and many people puppet his statements.
I admire people like you that actually get the low down from the source.
I find most places brave a large majority who blindly trust their preferred media, even some who say they don’t trust it but actually do. But Americans have a strong desire to convince everyone else’s what they “know”, not exclusively Americans, but it can be very extreme sometimes.