Blog Entry 5

The Reason Why We Are Persistent          

  

             In the article” I Know the Truth, So Don’t Bother Me with Facts,” the author, Jeffrey Kluger, discusses a human weakness that many people were not willing  to accept the truths and reverse their positions even though they found the real facts. A research from Ohio State University has invested how people were deceived by rumors shows two troubling conclusions. However, there are some investigators are still looking for the connections from how brain system effects people’s belief.

I agree with professor Garrett and Nisbet when they state even though people take time to learn the facts, the effort often does no good, because modern people have been developing into a characteristic of self-believing or not trusting other people in this complex society. Additionally, our daily life are surrounding of lies.

According to a research which was published on the famous science magazine, Scientific American, shows a unusual result. Investigators have found that the average person tells four lies a day, or 1,460 a year for a total of 88,000 by the age of 60. Once people realized they were treated, they would never trust other people when they encountered the same experience. As a result, we are not willing to trust people gradually.

Secondly, as everybody known the development of socialization and advertising in 21^st century, we are living in the period of commercial society. In the other perception of view, we are actually living in a period of lies. Advertisings are everywhere no matter where we stay, we have been brain-washed by the fantastic descriptions of products. Therefore, our ability of distinguishing the real facts was destroyed. Besides, we all realize the purposes of advertising, which is to entice consumers in order to expand their revenues and profits. As a consequence, we become much more persistent and self-believing.

In conclusion, we now realize the difficulties of trusting others rashly. Everyone doesn’t want to be hurt by lies, thus, we choose to be persistence. Otherwise, it could be foolish if we don’t know how to distinguish realities in this complex society.