Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.
People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.
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