To the readers and researchers everywhere.

… And how not seeing, and not hearing, lead to “chains of bondage”.

By Heather

I have a considerable opinion that in today’s world there have been many people who choose to not hear or see important things going on in the world. Some people do but I am directing towards the people that do not.  Others may have realized this in times before. This neglectfulness has led to a creating of metaphorical chains of bondage.

A portion of people think all there is to hear about is what the news makes out of the world. The news most of the time only gives information that is depressing, or unimportant at times, it only gives one side of the story, and the news only gives the information that is popular. There are people that do not want to hear about serious things. An example of that would be how my mother did not want to watch the news for an early while because it was too stressful when she had little kids and she decided she could not handle it. The bad part about that is that those serious things might actually be important. Where you get your information from is all that it depends on. There are also such ideas that claim:  People should only be worrying about serious things going on in the world if they are adults. Well, I claim that that is foolishness. People should not be afraid to handle the seriousness of the true knowledge; the information and understanding of what is happening. People also do not have to trust the media-“news” for all of your information.

Men and Women need to be able to get both sides for information. To find main truth, people cannot be biased. With this information from both sides, they are able to make a decision about what side they are on. Only after they receive all the information they will be able to choose for themselves what they think is the truth and which is not. They will have agency. Agency is what this world is all about.

People are bound by the incompleteness of their information and understanding about what is happening. What I mean by people are bound by incompleteness, is, that they are restricted. The people do not realize what they do not know. Many news outlets only give one perspective of the story. People are not taking the time to hear or find out both sides of the story. This is what I would call neglectfulness.

Through this restriction, people can take control of you, they can alter the few things you know and what you do not know. The neglectfulness that people go through leads to ignorance. The ignorance is what these chains of bondage are. What people can learn from this is that they should not be ignorant because people can take control of, and alter, the things you are ignorant about. That control is what puts us in the chains of bondage in America today.