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...maybe it doesn't?
Just because people have adamant beliefs about something doesn't mean they're wrong. So according to Sunstein we all need to reconsider slavery, civil rights, hell, even the Constitution (there are definitely other ways to rule a nation than democracy as constructed by that document) in order to be "smart?" I agree there are many instances where there is only black and white to the issue, and that seeing things only in that way may be close minded, but, uhhh, like the other people here, I find it hard to say that the internet has made me dumber irt to politics.
As my subject line says, I can now read a lot more about the issues than I once could. I know even more of the atrocities the Bush has committed that never get reported in the news. I can read actual news instead of having to sit through a 3 minute CNNHN Primetime segment in which the "news" is dissecting what the church's role on divorce should be by having the "anchor" (Mike Galanos) read verses from the Bible to a priest (didn't they have this argument a couple hundred years ago, btw? I swear this segment was on yesterday) or having to listen to anchors point out that Rudy G. didn't know the exact survival rates from Prostate cancer in the US and the UK when they can't manage to fact check claims about death rates in Iraq or the presence of WMD. So why am I dumber for reading the internet? Because I could better news from teevee or newspapers that I read online anyway? Mindboggling....
