{"id":15460,"date":"2013-08-28T21:07:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T21:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/08\/28\/moresomeone-was-trying-to-argue-with-me-the\/"},"modified":"2013-08-28T21:07:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T21:07:20","slug":"moresomeone-was-trying-to-argue-with-me-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/08\/28\/moresomeone-was-trying-to-argue-with-me-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- more -->someone was trying to argue with me the other day that people today are &ldquo;better informed&rdquo; and that the human race has only ever moved forward and I\u00a0<em>vehemently\u00a0<\/em>disagree with him.<\/p>\n<p>he accused me of being pessimistic and said that &ldquo;the moment you start questioning if we&rsquo;re making forward progress is the moment we stop making forward progress&rdquo; (which&hellip;no. that&rsquo;s not how those things work)<\/p>\n<p>but c&#8217;mon. <em>better<\/em> informed? yes I can get information immediately at my fingertips; however, the chance that it is incorrect information (as it has likely not been vetted by even an editor or agent) is SO MUCH HIGHER than if I went to the library and found a book on the same topic. I may have more information on more things, but it&rsquo;s about people&#8217;s\u00a0<em>opinions<\/em>, not facts, and when they&rsquo;re facts they&rsquo;re not VETTED facts, and I&rsquo;m in a heavier state of confusion than I ever was (I can&rsquo;t confidently pin this on the internet age entirely, because it could also be developmental though).<\/p>\n<p>also, sure, it can be pessimistic to question whether we&rsquo;ve made progress, but I prefer to see it this way: I am equipped with more or less the same innate tools, information resources, and ability to contact\u00a0<em>reliable\u00a0<\/em>human beings as\u00a0<em>every heroic person who has ever lived<\/em>, if not more, so<\/p>\n<p>um<\/p>\n<p>I have no excuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>someone was trying to argue with me the other day that people today are &ldquo;better informed&rdquo; and that the human race has only ever moved forward and I\u00a0vehemently\u00a0disagree with him. he accused me of being pessimistic and said that &ldquo;the moment you start questioning if we&rsquo;re making forward progress is the moment we stop making &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/08\/28\/moresomeone-was-trying-to-argue-with-me-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6384,802,939],"class_list":["post-15460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-information","tag-rant","tag-writerlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}