Why I’m Right and You’re Not

            The feeling of being right and having people agree with you claim to a subject is a great feeling. The feeling of respect and that little moment when our ego is boosted to a new level is a feeling we all enjoy. This has always been the case and as stated in the reading of The Loneliness of the Interconnected the internet has made it easier than ever to gain that moment. Whether it be by proving yourself right, proving someone else wrong, or just finding random facts browsing the internet; that moment is infinitesimally easier now than in the pre-Internet world. The reading is very good at providing examples and threading in said examples to prove the author’s points such as the South African president being outright idiotic by rejecting the retro-viral drugs. The author also did very well at setting up the next argument by connecting the past example to correlate with the present argument. This is well shown in the Speakers’ Corner being connected to the Internet in regards in how the audiences work. The author kept me actually interested throughout the reading by using all of these very diverse examples but then connecting them. I found the part of the alien apocalypse and spaceman story very weird in the outcome of the story and I give so much credit to the author for using that story. This is because it solidifies the fickle nature of human beings in that instead of facing the truth and countering their own beliefs, they would find excuses or other reasons to explain why their argument is right. Also what interested me is that people do not care if the majority of the world is constantly on the other side of the argument; as is in the case of South African president following the medical findings of Duesburg despite basically the whole world’s medical field being horrified. This actually has happened with my own parents, specifically my mom, who thought Obama was a Muslim terrorist because she stumbled upon it on the internet. She has gave some leeway by finally realizing Obama is not a terrorist but to this day believes he is a Muslim. So this article had a lot of great points and was an excellent read about this issue in the modern age.