Before the internet, information was hard to come by. You needed to know the right person, be at the right place, read the right book/paper. There was no ‘search and find’. Once something was missed, it was likely to stay missed. So, people ‘knew’ less unless they made that effort to be on top of things. But, after internet permeating all walks of life, we are now inundated with information. Many a times, information overload is the problem and not its lack. But, even when so much information is available at our finger tips, some people are astonishingly ill-informed. I wonder why? It could be because they do not give ‘knowledge’ the same importance as someone whose life was affected because of his ignorance. This leads me to a topic that I wanted to cover today – why don’t some people listen to good advice? why don’t they go out looking for it?
Archives for April 2020
Thoughts on a Pandemic
– All it took for the world economies to collapse was for the world to stand still for 2 weeks. Begging the question – how sustainable is this model?
– We all now know the difference between ‘essential’ goods and ‘non-essential’ goods
– We all know who step forward or don’t step back (or have no option but to) when a crisis hits – doctors, nurses, police, government administrators, municipality workers, delivery professionals, etc. These are the folks we’ve turn to in this hour of need. Have we valued them enough all this while? If not, what moral right to have to depend on them?