Is the sheer amount of information that we are bombarded with actually dumbing us down or making us less decisive?
Everyone has heard the popular sayings:
A wise man never knows all. A fool knows everything.
Don't argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
It is really just a phrase relating to the the Dunning-Kruger effect
The Dunning-Kruger effect is the inability for someone to understand their own incompetence.
As the world is getting more complex in the industrial revolution I wonder whether knowledge is increasing but wisdom is decreasing.
While we understand more of what is happening around us - medical knowledge, technology and science knowledge has all improved.
But it is the application of that knowledge that has me worried.
We are polluting the planet more than ever and our population is ever increasing.
While medical knowledge and skill has increased people are increasingly falling for pseudo scientific quackery and outright scams.
Blockchain technology and crypto have the ability to improve everyones lives.
But the majority of the "noise" on the forum appears to be hype, scams and poor quality ICOs with a lot of users that know very little about the technology they are using and are vulnerable to re-invented old scams.
While "official" crime statistics show no dramatic increase - it is only because people are no longer reporting certain crimes. If I look at my email inboxes I receive numerous daily attempts to scam and weekly scam calls on my phone.
People got away from slavery and serfdom. Yet now the gap between the rich and the poor is increasing again.
People fought for privacy and personal freedom and are now giving it away for free on social media.
Are we as a population becoming less wise while simultaneously being bombarded with more information. ?