I have to say I have been highly disappointed in the ProgressiveU community so far. I thought there might be a lot of intelligent informed young people speaking about the issues. However most students blogging here are only doing it for the opportunity to maybe win a scholarship whereas I am a passionate blogger.
I kind of run like 5 blogs in total but I have two main ones. I have my personal blog and I have a socio-political blog. Those are my main ones and I blog here sometimes.
Anyway a lot of discussions I have heard as comments on blog posts here have disappointed me. Not in the sense that someone said something silly. Just in the sense that they were already forming an opinion on something they had clearly not been informed about or done research on.
Everytime I tell someone out loud or blog about a political idea I have I thought long and hard about it and researched it before I come out expressing my opinion. The reason is that I have encountered plenty of fools who spew out an opinion based on their party or their parents political views and never really thought about it on their own.
Thus when I discuss with people the issues people take me seriously because I have thought very hard and done my homework to come to these conclusions.
I am more than happy to discuss with people to help them research/understand/form an opinion on issues. But do not expect me to necessarily respect your opinion if you have nothing to back it up.
There is so much you could learn if you payed attention to the news especially the independent news and the blogosphere.
My socio-political blog that I was talking about is this one: http://neogaia.stumbleupon.com/
I put a lot of effort and more importantly thought into it and as a result people are impressed of the views I hold at the age of only 17.
Also something young people run into a lot is that adults will disregard our opinions sometimes because we are young. That happens to me sometimes. But if you backup your political opinions/views with research and thought they will take you more seriously.
I just want people to find out the truth for themselves by being informed. All too often people don't inform themselves and form opinions that aren't necessarily based on the truth. This creates a problem where the average person isn't informed and when a person who is informed educates them on a topic they will usually be reluctant to hear because so few people are expressing that view. Thus an apathetic/not informed majority makes it difficult for the minority of those who are informed to get things done.
So what needs to happen is for there to stop being a minority of people who are informed and turn that into a majority. I think most people want to know that truth right now but they don't really now how we can do that and those of us who know where to turn to be informed should help them leran where to go to be able to inform themselves.
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