Do you Think ?
I would like to raise a point to the Millenial Generation. With the speed of information made available through fibre optics and big data, we have in our hands or in our laptops, information which just 20 years ago, most institutions of higher learning or even some countries did not have access to.
Information is power, true or false. I think this is the 6 billion dollar question. If with the information at our fingertips, everyone theoretically has information to make decisions regarding their health, their financial status, their options to finding a companion or life partner, buying anything and everything and yes, even manipulating other people's lives.
There is fake news, all kinds of news sites which in the past we suspected there was 'spinning of the facts' and facts which are given to placate, push an agenda and motivate.
How does a person who has suddenly been teleported from the 16th century make of all this information overload ?
Will he go "Woah ! " and spend time catching up on all the history (be careful, history is written by the victors of the wars and even history can be framed according to which side it was written and to which audience !)
Or will he just dumb down and just be placated that 'everything is out there' so there is no need to search because "The Truth is Out There".
If everyone takes the docile approach and just "Go with the flow", like water, then we know where water flows ?? It goes downhill FAST.
Think about our very existence in our part of the world. What are we contributing (or not) to this sick Earth which is by the minute getting more and more polluted, populated and hotter due to climate change, the extinction of many wild animals forever as the rapid deforestation of the tropical rainforests in the name of development and need for more timber, housing and collectivised farming for our ever expllding population.
We are becoming mindless, just going through the motions. The main collective dumbing down of the masses of people has begun in earnest. The majority of us will soon be the minions doing menial tasks for a basic wage.
Scary thought !
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