Taking Sides
How’s a consumer to know what to believe? Anything and everything can be debated either way. Check out this post about the new High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) Lobby commercial as posted on Triplepundit.com and Twittered about by @thecitizen. Look at the comments to this post, too. A strong argument can be made for either side.
Then also find, in the sidebar on that same site, an ad for a movie trailer about the business and the future of Water, check it out at flowthefilm.com. The trailer seems to depict a film full of convincing arguments, told in a documentary style similar to An Inconvient Truth and the 9/11 Loose Change films. These films can be convincing. Some people are convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt. Some are not. Some fall somewhere in-between.
Looks like we need more places that let us hear both sides of an argument so that we can then choose for ourselves about which side we think should win, such as in the relationship-related site called: Sidetaker.com (as heard on Twitter). But then again, I guess our upcoming elections will be the largest scale version of this. It’s amazing how each side of an argument will have its share of people that are adamant about its side being the only way to think about something.