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I Know the Truth, So Don’t Bother Me with Facts

In article “I know the truth, so don’t bother me with facts” Jeffrey Kluger explains how primal rumors effect on people’s beliefs. The author mentioned about two professors’ study which determines how people strongly believe in their beliefs. In addition, they don’t want to change their primary opinion even if they have learned a lot of facts. Some of them don’t want change the mind because of their personalities, and them so hard to admit that they were wrong. At the end, Jeffrey Kluger said that no matter what the all studies show us, everything up to us. Only we have to make our decisions. Nevertheless, we can always be ready to admit that that idea is not real. I know Jeffrey Kluger is right when he states “I know the truth, so don’t bother me with facts” because primal rumors strongly effect on people’s beliefs and it’s more important than others opinion, many of people can’t change their mind because of their ego, some beliefs obtrude to people from psychological pressure.

I’ve heard many times that primal rumor play an important role in human belief. Usually, people believe in primal rumor more even it would be wrong than the others. For instance, recently story that occurred with Dominique Strauss-Kahn who was accused in the attempt to rape chambermaid. This story was got around all over the world. Almost anybody believed what was said on the television, in the newspapers, radio, and internet. People disgusted to him. At that time, he lost the power and his high position because people didn’t believe him more. They believed the primal humor. Even, when he was justified these people continued to consider him a dastard. It story show us that people who have believed in primal humor, don’t want to believe any other facts.

Most people don’t want change their mind because they are afraid to admit mistakes. The reason is ego. I seem that people who have unstable self-rating about themselves more often don’t admit their mistakes. So, it requires the confirmation from other side. For instance, many years ago my friend’s mom separated her daughter with her love man, who wanted to marry at her. At that time, her daughter was young and she didn’t resist mom’s decision. Passed 2o years, she was got married a few times, but she has never been happy with her domesticity. I know, her mom admit her mistake inside herself, but she doesn’t want say about it her daughter because she afraid to look mistaken and become non-authoritative person front the daughter. Also, sometime I can observe that people who work in government never admit their mistakes. I think them afraid that their mistakes go into history, and they don’t want to disserve historical belief about their impeccability. This is also because of ego.

Sometime, some beliefs were obtruded to people by someone or something. Something is physiological pressure. I remember the time when I grew up in the ex-Soviet Union. That time that government conducted lectures and implanted to people about atheism. Atheism is belief that there no God. Many people, who were oldest than me, learned that study in colleges and Universities. That theory is so sink into their mind that some people still atheists or don’t believe in God. Opposite, other people, who were born in Russian monarchy, had kept in their minds their belief in God. Nevertheless difficult situation regarding faithful people at that time, they had left with belief in God. That leadership of country took strong rules about these people. They were persecuted, defamed and also killed. However, they stayed faithful in their belief. It also confirm that people won’t change their points despite of any difficult position and situation.

In conclusion, I agree that primal rumor is thing that create main point of view. Most of the people cannot admit their mistakes because of ego. And once people believe in something, they never make change their beliefs. I learn from this article that people should not look like people from cave. We differ from those people, that we free and we can do everything what we want, we have more opportunities do not be like them.