Why do many people believe in books, words, written information, & political speakers over reality?

Question

I see this all the time. I see it in femininsm. I see it in political talk about what people THINK is going on in the world. I see it in science conversations, even religious talk. People will just start citing information from books, written literature, as the absolute facts and truth just because they read it and trust the sources. They procede to call those who haven't read it, dumb, wrong, and beneath them, and continue to feel, as though they're right.

Some will even show them something in reality that proves what they say they read is wrong, but they still dismiss even what happens right before their eyes.

Why do people do this? Why do so many people follow written information & believe in it, even call it fact, when they truly have no real proof in the accusations they make? What ever happened to true logic, like actually going beyond someone elses written statistics to find the facts yourself without jaded perception? What ever happened to REALLY looking for answers?

Answer 1

because instead of living there own life they wanna live by a book.

Answer 2

Society's ideologies construct us. The words we speak, the thoughts we think, are original, in the sense that vestiges of it, are collaborated from a whole heap of sources we've accumulated in the span of our life (at least what we've lived) and our exposure. So when you break it down, that's just it, there are parallels in humans.

Some people's ideals overtake other options in life. Materialism is emphasised and as they say, money makes the world go round. At the end of the day, when you really sit down with a cup of tea and think about it, I guess there's a point in your life, when you think, what does it all amount to? Is it all really worth it? Our long term goals are really short term goals.

I used to think I understood that all, but it all only came late last year, when I visited a rehabilitation home, and talked to the elderly. After entertaining them with a play, a 100 year old told me to live my life well and make it all count, that he's been through it all in the past century and he hopes the best for me. That really touched me and I cried, something that's never happened to me before.

We do look for answers, at different times for different things. Our reality is subjective but we are part of the broader picture, what we believe to be objective reality.

Thanks for asking this question.

Answer 3

Because reality gives us something to write about and share with others the experience one has gone through.

Answer 4

we have not been taught to believe by two or more proofs only to think not wait for proof then believe