[TonySandos]

(07-13-2015 11:54 AM)Aenigmarius Wrote:  

Hubris. Pure hubris.

We're on the cusp of a new Dark Age, not a new Ice Age. Human beings, both on average individually and as an aggregate whole, know less than we did in previous generations.

Individually, we are more connected and have access to more information than ever before, but our worlds are increasingly smaller and the knowledge we actually understand, retain and employ is shrinking by the day.

As a whole, we have more information, more data, more test results, more research, more tools for investigation and analysis, but we are moving farther and farther from true knowledge.

The collective human understanding is filling up with more myths and outright untruths rather than facts and understanding. Even words are losing their meaning and language is failing us as memes supersede true knowledge and understanding.

What is actually, provably true can be deemed unacceptable, and therefore, untrue. We place more value on the messenger or the intent of the message rather than the truth of the message. Even our scientific is suspect, as the pursuit of pure scientific discovery gives way to the need to confirm or disprove one agenda over another, and as how the sound-bite summary of the results sounds on the evening news matters more than what the underlying analysis actually means.

We are no longer advancing, we're retreating into our own personal cocoons to enjoy the movie of our lives, starring us and a cast of nameless thousands, surrounded by the information, myths and untruths we deem acceptable to the plot we're trying to act out.