Human Beans and Belief

Like many active internetters I receive lots of e-mails, usually forwards by my well-intentioned friends, making me aware of some horrible secret or character flaw of some politician or public figger. Now it is an interesting Human trait that we tend to accept or believe those assertions which support our particular conscious/unconscious bias while rejecting or disbelieving those that don't support the bias. I'll get an e-mail about Obama refusing to salute the flag or about Obama being a muslim terrorist or about McCain being a madman or about the U.S. heading down the proverbial path of "decline" like all great "empires" in history. OK...maybe that last one is true. However, lots, if not most, of these assertions-stated-as-fact floated by are not true. And the "average" citizen does not have the time, or interest, in checking it out. And where would one go to check it out. Snopes is ok but not fool-proof. So many, if not most, citizens take the e-mail assertion as fact, or at least semi-fact, and add it to the list of reasons why they are for or agains someone or something. And, many recipients of the e-mail will quickly and purposefully pass the e-mail on to others as if to say..."SEE....I TOLD YOU HE/SHE GAVE BIRTH TO AN ALIEN LIZARD-BABY". Now I don't have the time to check every e-mail assertion out either. And I have been guilty of this same activity...and been embarrassed when called out by a friend who did check it out. So...I am saying...BELIEVE NONE OF WHAT YOU HEAR AND ONLY HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE. Especially during an election cycle.

gotta run.....Boojang got loose................