Eccentrics: How absorbent are we towards information?

Eccentrics: How absorbent are we towards information?: The globe is a bundle of information. Through those glossy gadgets and crispy newspapers, we are always trying to update ourselves with th...

How absorbent are we towards information?

The globe is a bundle of information. Through those glossy gadgets and crispy newspapers, we are always trying to update ourselves with the latest information. We want wifi everywhere. We want to Google everything. No matter whether it is politics or Bollywood or sports, we want to know everything. Little do we focus on the fact that most of the information coming to us has been distorted and filtered and altered by two kinds of people…

…those who have money.

…those who don’t have the ‘just right’ intellect and wisdom to gather and distribute the ‘correct and complete’ information.

Do we ever question over the credibility of the information we are letting inside our brains?

And then do we really try to make an effort to unlearn the learnt information so that our soul is preserved?

Our sheer vulnerability towards the ‘world of information’ makes all kinds of ‘means of information’ sell out loud.

At times, an addict just requires the spirit…no matter what brand it is…what quality it is of…! The same way, most of us ‘just want to know’! It hardly matters ‘what’ we should know… ‘why’ we should know… ‘where’ is this information coming from! It reminds me of a dialogue in the film Lootera wherein Ranveer Singh asks his people to dig in the earth. When questioned about why to dig, he very conveniently says…  “because it is a land”. True, we let in every kind of information from everywhere…because we have a BRAIN!

Hardly and rarely do we make an effort for things like …is there something that we would like to know but unable to find…what effort should we make to know the unknown. Do we want to know the unknown?

How baseless it is to be absorbent towards every kind of information thrown on us. Why do we want to be informed?

We should realize that the information we let in our brains ‘makes us’! Therefore, the masses exist! The masses listen to the same kind of information from the same means available to everyone and then group along to discuss the same thing the same way. Too much information on almost everything somehow degrades the wiring of our brain. It tends to adulterate the purity of human conscience.

In today’s world, being informed is not ‘really being informed’. ‘Being informed’ comes naturally…we just need to have the organs called ‘ear and eye’.

Therefore, it is really difficult to stay opaque towards information because it is being thrown on us from every possible direction. But at least, we can remain ‘consciously translucent (if not opaque) and mindful’ towards the world of information we reside amidst.