Did you all see that? The CEO of Overstock.com just posted a comment on my blog. (See previous post.) He was mad that I wasn't willing to automatically trust the contents of the article he funded, Deep Capture, without some critical thinking.
I read that really long article and I was nice enough to link to it. But, sorry dude, it seems these days you just can't trust anything to be what it is on its face. So don't take offense that I don't just read and believe. Clearly you cannot take anything you get from the media at face value these days: case in point, Jim Cramer trashing Overstock for for the purpose of short selling the stocks and making money off of it. So, I'm just saying, I read that article and found it illuminating but I'm never going to take what I read and just think, "Okay, this is all true and I should believe it." If anything, "Deep Capture" stresses our lack of healthy skepticism leading to this financial crisis at hand.
I think we all need to keep our skepticism at everything we encounter. It's the only way we can protect ourselves.
Hi In the Pines,
ReplyDeleteNo no, you misread my tone. I am grateful that you wrote about and linked to DeepCapture. It is good of you to question everyone's motives. I was just taking a half-hearted jibe (as were you, I think). I was simply making the point that sometimes people do things because they are the right thigns to do. I fully understand where you may ave lost your confidence in that possibility, however.
Sincerely,
Patrick Byrne