My Speech to the News Camera in my Head

I don’t know how many times we have to hear this until it means something. It’s probably true that Thomas Jefferson would be appalled how ill-informed or uninformed we are. It’s up to us to read, watch and listen to everything we can to make up our minds about issues that affect us. We allow our beliefs, religious and otherwise, to cloud or tint or filter out all or most of the critical information that is available to us, and all we absorb is the biased news and advertising that sits well. We need to work a little, to do our own research and critical thinking. But that takes time, and the values and priorities in our society are wrong because they no longer allow for the time we need to do that kind of work. And that needs to change.