Belief vs. Disbelief

Chapter 4 simply restates what we commonly see everyday. The last thing that people especially Americans like to hear is that their wrong. This is even the case when there is clear cut proof sitting right in front of your face. If we take the time to back an idea and put our support and belief in that idea it won't be easy for us to make a complete 180 turn on that belief even after we find the disprroving evidence. The subject on the UFO cult is a clear example and there are common cases like this all the time. There are probably groups of people who get together on certain dates each year with the belief that the world is coming to an end , but when the world keeps rotating as it has for millions of years the proof is their that thir wrong. The thing is if you put so much time into anything you dont like to see your time being wasted on failure which is why its hard for us to turn back on our belief. You will see examples everyday of people backing the wrong side because we dont want to be told were wrong and I am an example of that myself. Admitting to being wrong and turning away from beliefs with lack of evidence is just another step we have to take in becoming "unspun."

Looks Can Be Deceiving

After reading the first three chapters of UnSpun I have found Chapter 3 to be the most appealing. There is a quote which really made this chapter stand out to me and that is, " A picture can indeed be worh a thousand words-but those words are't neceessarily true." I found this quote to be very true in todays society especially through various media outlets. Everythingwe see or hear on tv, the radio, in newspapers, on the internet, and wherever else we look is sugarcoated. As this chapter showed different products that were sugarcoated and tricked people into seeing and belevingsomething that wasn't there. This happens all the time everywhere we look as I said before and the reason this was so important to me is because people don't feel the need to take time and do some simpler esearch. When you see a product being advertised and think it may be for you look into it and see what is really there. When a politician makes a proposed plan look into it to see what is really happening. If we start to look beyond the pretty pictures we want to see and start to see the dark truth which is usually behind it then we can start to become "unspun".