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Tunnel Intelligence

The Shaping of the Voter Mind

Tunnel Vision is familiar to each of us and is easily defined as

having an extremely narrow point of view, a focus on one agenda to
the exclusion of all others and loss of peripheral vision. What about

Tunnel Intelligence and what is it? First, intelligence and knowledge
are not the same. Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply

knowledge through thought and reason. The concept of Tunnel
Intelligence is limiting access to knowledge due to an agenda or

ideology, which prevent a person from seeing beyond the underlying

biases these traits present. Ideologies can also be morals, culture,
religion, etc. It is not necessarily a negative concept, but the results
may be. It is forming an opinion without being informed and is

usually associated with an emotional reaction or agenda; or both. It

is an extremely intellectual narrow point of view, an intellectual

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