why there will always be sky talkers | godfree110158's Blog

"Perhaps the most important advance in the behavioral sciences in our times
has been the growing recognition that the perceiver is not just a passive
camera taking a picture, but takes an active part in perception. He sees
what experience has conditioned him to see. What perceiver then sees what
is really there? Nobody of course. Each of perceives what our past has
prepared us to perceive. We select and distinguish, we focus on some objects
and relationships and we blur others. We distort objective reality to make
it conform to our needs our, or hopes, or fears, or hates, or envies or
affections. Our eyes and brains do not merely register some objective
portrait of other persons or groups but our very active scene is warped by
what we have been taught to believe, by what we want to believe and by what
we need to believe. It is impossible to reason a man out of something he
has not been reasoned into. When people have acquired their beliefs on an
emotional level they cannot be persuaded out of them on a rational level.
No matter how strong the proof or the logic behind it, people will hold onto
their emotional beliefs and twist the facts to meet their version of reality."

Sidney J. Harris