Monday, January 23, 2006

Conventional Wisdom... anyone!?

The world we live in, is soon becoming a scary place in more ways than we can imagine. People today lack the conventional wisdom or common sense that is actually responsible for all what we have gained during the time we have existed on this planet.

I was so disturbed to find out how effective our marketing strategies have been in brainwashing minds all over. For instance, if you know to use a computer, or you choose to work using one... you are deemed as intelligent... and actually admired or perhaps even worshipped by others for your 'mental prowess'. When in reality... computers are just dumb machines... or tools if you can call it that... and the only they do is to compute... being a computer user... is thus neither a sign of intelligence nor is it some kind of rocket-science that is beyond the scope of any ordirnary person! However the stereotypes we have in our society would force you to believe otherwise.

On a related note.... I received this forward from a distant friend... and it was just titled "Intelligence"... and contained some lewd riddles with seemingly double meaning answers... rather it was a like a story where a six year old from first standard wants to go over to the third standard... and is made to answer these riddles. And at the end of all that torture, the kid supposedly answers all the questions... and his teacher replies that he is so intelligent that he should join IIM-A!

And that was it... this is so horrible... ok... before I rant any further... I'd like to tell the un-initiated that IIM-A happens to be one of the premier business schools and perhaps also one of the most sought after business schools in the country. But what has that got to do with intelligence.... with all due respect to all those fine folks who have cracked the CAT and made it there... I fail to see the link.

And I also hate to see how stereotypes are corrupting and ruining our sense of conventional wisdom!

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