Yesterday, in a group of some of the brightest minds of our time; shutdown of Phoenix AZ airport was hotly debated on a 33 C day in England. Factually speaking, it wasn't a shut down, just a few aircrafts that can't generate enough thrust for take off were not taking off. Having spent half a decade in aviation industry, I know of airlines from middle east who order planes (engines) with capabilities to fly even at 50 C. My attempts to highlight these things fell on deaf ears. Soon, the discussion turned to climate change, and what not before I chose to move on with my life. Why could people be so stupid?
This morning, there was another WhatsApp forward claiming kiddle.co to be a kid friendly product from Google. Short Google search tells me that kiddle deliberately places emphasis on being powered by Google Custom Search. Again, fact of the matter is that 99% of websites I visit are powered by Google Custom Search. Half knowledge is really dangerous.
There's a fine line between knowing things and pseudo intellectuals. Often, in our zeal to be seen as ambassadors of positivity / knowledge / truth / God; we take very little effort to analyse. We end up doing more harm than good. Snopes, Hoax Slayer, That's Nonsense, and others including Facebook have been fighting an uneven battle against natural stupidity of median population. Sad part is that even intelligent people in top 1% of population fall for it.
In the specific case of Phoenix to climate change debate, the culprit was the heat wave is south Europe and England; due to which more people would have seen the news, trending it more than it deserved and snowball effect led the story to our conversation.
I wish the median citizen becomes analytical and smart before a super moon strikes the Earth. Hopefully then, we won't see any more shocking referenda and polls !
This morning, there was another WhatsApp forward claiming kiddle.co to be a kid friendly product from Google. Short Google search tells me that kiddle deliberately places emphasis on being powered by Google Custom Search. Again, fact of the matter is that 99% of websites I visit are powered by Google Custom Search. Half knowledge is really dangerous.
There's a fine line between knowing things and pseudo intellectuals. Often, in our zeal to be seen as ambassadors of positivity / knowledge / truth / God; we take very little effort to analyse. We end up doing more harm than good. Snopes, Hoax Slayer, That's Nonsense, and others including Facebook have been fighting an uneven battle against natural stupidity of median population. Sad part is that even intelligent people in top 1% of population fall for it.
In the specific case of Phoenix to climate change debate, the culprit was the heat wave is south Europe and England; due to which more people would have seen the news, trending it more than it deserved and snowball effect led the story to our conversation.
I wish the median citizen becomes analytical and smart before a super moon strikes the Earth. Hopefully then, we won't see any more shocking referenda and polls !
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