The arrogance of ignorance

There is no excuse in these times of Google at your fingertips to be uninformed on any subject known to man. Misinformed and disinformed, maybe, but definitely not uninformed. There is a plethora of people who have information to be imparted and shared with the world at large, and it is easy and free to get it out there. The difficult part is to lead people to that information.

Those who seek information will eventually find it, but the majority of the world's population resides in a comfort zone of being told what to know, rather than going to the inconvenience of finding out for themselves. Mental apathy appears to be the new disease.

We should be constantly questioning what we are told, looking at both sides of every story, digging for the truth. Instead our youth follow the inane utterances and pathetically shallow lifestyles of so-called celebrities, and aspire to be like them. There are some celebrities who can be celebrated, it must be acknowledged, for being outspoken about meaningful issues and concern for the less fortunate, but there is no doubt that more people know who Kim Kardashian is than Mother Theresa (a comparison put out on Facebook, and aptly so).

Those who do question and reject the mainstream version, who are widely read and constantly seeking, have to bear the brunt of a society that has been led to believe that the version of history, ancient and current, and our origins are the unassailable truth, and are dismissed as being less than suitable to converse with, and just completely wrong. So many people who have so much to share hold back simply through fear of losing their jobs, their friends, their credibility and even their family, such is the ostracism of 'normal' society. And yet it is those 'normal' people who have the most to fear: the loss of their idea of what is real and what life is really all about. That must be why they are so adamant that they don't want to hear a single word against what they believe in.

The trouble is, perhaps it is just what the world needs.