What is the big question? More importantly what is my big question? I hear time and time again on the news 'the experts say.....' and we people really believe what is being said because the "experts" said so. When I hear people say the economy is doing better I just laugh. My dad is employed he never lost his job so therefore when I hear the economy is doing better my life has really been unaltered. So is it really doing better? I'm not trying to hate on Obama I'm just saying, what if things weren't actually doing better? It is certainly a possibility. But you know, not too many people really think about issues like this. When we hear a respected official say something we have to either take their word for it or delve for the answer ourselves. Now I really want to know why we accept this so easily. Let's give the benefit of the doubt to conspiracy (I love conspiracy theories) and say the economy isn't doing better at all and the American public thinks that it is doing better because the President and the news says so. Why are we willing to accept this as a valid answer? (remember we are conspirators now) Is it because the alternative would mean believing in a worse economy and we choose to think that the economy is good because it makes us feel better? Or is it because we genuinely believe our respected officials (which I find strange because I can think of A LOT of reasons why we should never listen to anything anyone from Washington says.)
In both novels conditions are clearly worse than before their respective revolutions, but people and animals think that they are better simply because they are told that they are better. So my question is WHY? Why do we so easily believe what we are told by respected officials when our gut tells us otherwise?
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