| It's actually one of the reasons I won't get involved with a lot of the general issue topics on these sites. I have my opinions which I consider to be well reasoned and researched and that, quite frankly, evolve.
The problem is that we've built a whole culture that's based on sound-bites. A couple of years ago I did my MBA...you know what that really taught you? Little bits of lots of different things that make you APPEAR as if you know what you're talking about. That's why even people who appear well educated can't get to the correlation level...they actually don't know enough about the topic. Lateral application of a concept takes a much deeper knowledge of a topic than having all the 'catch phrases'.
The internet doesn't help either in this regard. It means that everybody can be an 'expert' without any real knowledge and in the end expounding something that's either ill-informed or, even more maliciously, blatantly disinformed. Use the internet, it's great for information gathering but as with all information be very critical of it's source.
Just my thoughts really (and they will probably change).
Regards,
Trevor |