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How Does Pitt Change The Way Of Thinking

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What does the statement, mentioned in the article, actually imply? The author himself told a story in which he provides some information about the black American soldier Henry Johnson and his heroic acts in spite of being outnumbered. That was when Pitts got into an argument with a colleague, Ken Thompson, of the heroic acts despite of the information being correct and even listed on the Arlington National Cemetery. Even though Pitts pointed out Thompson’s mistakes and wished to send more evidence, he is a respected person and the “Zeitgeist personified”. So Pitts instead chose not to. This implied we are living in a narrow-minded world, where facts no longer be used to settle things because of prejudices. The ending further said that “The facts that you refuse to acknowledge a wall does not change the fact that it is a wall” further implied that Pitts wanted people to know that he need the people to see the world as the way it is and that reality does not change even when you refuse to accept it. …show more content…

As Pitts said from the article, “We admit no ideas that do not confirm us, hear no voice that does not echo us, sift out all information that does not validate what we wish to believe”. Therefore, people are becoming prevented from thinking in a logical, “critical” way they don’t just simply believe what isn’t correct according to their way of thinking. When we listen to information-provider like radio and TV, we realized that we are being estranged because of our own way of thinking, “alienated” even from the simplest truth. This can lead us into believing false facts and we can do nothing but to believe them. The falsities outbreak is a real danger to the modern world because we are always advancing in modern

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