That Arizona sheriff is (again) questioning the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate, a timely event because of a column in today's Montgomery Advertiser by AUM Communications Professor Jim Vickrey.
Vickrey warns about the danger of repeating known lies, like the questions about the birth certificate...reminding us of the emails we all get now and then:
The discourse well is so poisoned these days that I avoid some topics of conversation with folks I know, and with strangers. What's the use? Like this week's MMMM topic, changing voters minds, we're all locked down into our own perspective beliefs, and no amount of reasoning is going to change it.
Vickrey suggests we seek the truth, and then defend it.
But I'm afraid, like the admonition in A Few Good Men, many Americans can't-- or won't-- handle the truth.
Our comfortable lies are too cozy to put aside.
Vickrey warns about the danger of repeating known lies, like the questions about the birth certificate...reminding us of the emails we all get now and then:
“I don‘t know if this is true or not, but it‘s too good not to pass on.”
The discourse well is so poisoned these days that I avoid some topics of conversation with folks I know, and with strangers. What's the use? Like this week's MMMM topic, changing voters minds, we're all locked down into our own perspective beliefs, and no amount of reasoning is going to change it.
Vickrey suggests we seek the truth, and then defend it.
But I'm afraid, like the admonition in A Few Good Men, many Americans can't-- or won't-- handle the truth.
Our comfortable lies are too cozy to put aside.
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