That’s just, like, your opinion, man

The advent of technology has led to a spread in information previously unseen in our society. We now have instant access to any and all information from across the world.

However, this isn’t an absolutely positive thing. As Wikipedia, YouTube and the Huffington Post apparently prove, the technological advance has shown an unfortunate liberal bias.

From articles on Miley Cyrus to gophers and their dramatic looks, the liberal elite have now made the Internet a sad place for us millions in America who don’t believe said gophers’ political agendas.

Luckily, there is an alternative to this hippie commune love-fest. If you don’t like or believe in something, you can simply create your own site with your own biases (hello Schlafly family!).

Not only have we, in the dedication to freedom, proliferated sites such as conservapedia, but we have fostered a situation where no idea or “theory” has any more weight than any other theory.

You think the world isn’t round? Join the Flat Earth Society.

You can’t explain those weird bites on your cow’s neck? Chupacabra!

You don’t believe in evolution? Don’t worry, there are too many sites to mention for evidence.

Those weird footprints in the snow when you went to let the dog out? The Yeti!

Are you tired of hearing about how great the Beatles were when John Mayer is SUCH a better musician? (Say that to Professor Glenn Gass.) There’s room for that belief too.

If I don’t believe in what you hold, if there is a singular flaw in a theory that has been scientifically tested for hundreds of years, it’s on you to justify it, not me. Every bit of data, scientific theory, or piece of information you don’t believe gets treated like the prosecution in a bad T.V. legal show, where it’s on you to prove beyond a doubt I have ten fingers.

You might have a motive, and pictures, and data, and evidence, but I have my own idea and a Web site. So you have no right to get up there on your high horse and not give me a fair and balanced discussion about my idea that I have seven fingers.

People used to keep the Bible in church and use it for their spiritual lives, recognizing King James never authorized anyone to put specific science of how God created the world into it.

Now James Dobson could walk into Jordan Hall with a copy of the Bible, and if you didn’t respect the science of the Bible the same as Newton, you would end up plastered on Fox News for weeks.

But that’s where we are as a society. There’s no longer any reason to believe anything you don’t feel like.

Fact, evidence, empirical data? Just part of the liberal agenda. The disdain for the sketchy and questionable data about Bigfoot, Nessie, UFO’s and JFK has changed to acceptance of every flimsy idea that pops into your head.

Don’t feel comfortable with the idea of gravity? Make a site! Or have they gotten to you, too...

E-mail: mrstraw@indiana.edu