I get most of my useful information from Tumblr. Reading and understanding the perspectives of people who are in the conflict and who know a lot about that conflict really make me a more educated person because I personally cannot understand advanced reading like Tocqueville where I have to break each sentence down to understand a small paragraph because of all the unnecessary big words and phrasing. Besides Tumblr, I get my information from Googling it. Google is my Mecca for information. Some people like Bing, or Safari, and they’re okay, but Google lets me have the biased and the unbiased material and information that I thrive off of. Now with my own bias on which search engine is better aside, I also love to look at snapchats cool Discover option where you can look through a different types of social media. You can go onto Buzzfeed (my personal fave) and look at social issues in a fun, positive, yet serious at time way; or you can go onto CNN (my other fave) and learn about what’s going on with NASA, political issues, and geographic issues as well.
These sources all have their biases, which is why I would say that it is a good thing because I would have a very well rounded bias. I am not confined to a singular opinion, but multiple that I can then take the information and do with as I please. Sometimes these opinions can lead to an idea by Bill Bishop called the “Big Sort”.
The “Big Sort” is like cliques in high school. It’s finding the group that you feel like you can most resonate with, and if you disagree with those said resonations, than you have the power to physically move yourself to another area and find another group. It’s basically the theme of the movie “Mean Girls”. I see this in my hometown because some people who are left-winged* tend to be in town and in a closer community and the right-winged* people tend to live outside of town and enjoy their solitude. You see a lot of the right-winged* people shopping in town at all of the stores, and in those stores you see the left-winged* people working in those stores. Except for Walmart and Natural Grocers, Walmart is by the right-winged* people for the right-winged* people, and Natural Grocers is by the left-winged* people for the left-winged* people. Or it can even be which search engine you use that I was talking about earlier.
*I was using these terms for a reference, and didn’t have a better known term to use, if you have suggestions for better terms please NICELY comment them.
These sources all have their biases, which is why I would say that it is a good thing because I would have a very well rounded bias. I am not confined to a singular opinion, but multiple that I can then take the information and do with as I please. Sometimes these opinions can lead to an idea by Bill Bishop called the “Big Sort”.
The “Big Sort” is like cliques in high school. It’s finding the group that you feel like you can most resonate with, and if you disagree with those said resonations, than you have the power to physically move yourself to another area and find another group. It’s basically the theme of the movie “Mean Girls”. I see this in my hometown because some people who are left-winged* tend to be in town and in a closer community and the right-winged* people tend to live outside of town and enjoy their solitude. You see a lot of the right-winged* people shopping in town at all of the stores, and in those stores you see the left-winged* people working in those stores. Except for Walmart and Natural Grocers, Walmart is by the right-winged* people for the right-winged* people, and Natural Grocers is by the left-winged* people for the left-winged* people. Or it can even be which search engine you use that I was talking about earlier.
*I was using these terms for a reference, and didn’t have a better known term to use, if you have suggestions for better terms please NICELY comment them.