I suspect we have too much information, much of it bogus. The disinformation settles in pools where the logically-challenged also gravitate, devouring whatever is on offer. How frustrating it is to come across someone who must have struggled to get out of 7th grade boldly reject knowledge accumulated over decades, generations by experts in fields such as epidemiology or virology as a hoax or a conspiracy. What the educated have worked so long to understand succumbs to what some borderline idiot and those of like mind feel.
Perhaps social media and the internet need to be made more available after all there are one or two folks left who actually think before reacting.... unfortunately I think the brain dead affliction is spreading and like all the other world wide problems has no simple cure.......
I suspect we have too much information, much of it bogus. The disinformation settles in pools where the logically-challenged also gravitate, devouring whatever is on offer. How frustrating it is to come across someone who must have struggled to get out of 7th grade boldly reject knowledge accumulated over decades, generations by experts in fields such as epidemiology or virology as a hoax or a conspiracy. What the educated have worked so long to understand succumbs to what some borderline idiot and those of like mind feel.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't say it any better, Mound. The lack of discernment and critical thinking vexes and perplexes me to no end.
DeletePerhaps social media and the internet need to be made more available after all there are one or two folks left who actually think before reacting.... unfortunately I think the brain dead affliction is spreading and like all the other world wide problems has no simple cure.......
ReplyDeleteSadly, it is another kind of pandemic for which there is no inoculation, Rural.
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ReplyDeleteas Mound suggests the problem isn't the amount of information, Lorne. It the quality of that information.
And the quality of the 'thinker,' Owen.
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