Remembering Edgar Allen Poe …
Amongst some amazing literary works, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Raven, Edgar found time to deliver the proverb …
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see”.
Apt for this day and age, don’t you think? Keep a little scepticism to hand when listening during conversation. Friends have a habit of exaggerating and often pass on false information … and you’re right, not our everyday circle of friends I’m talking of; I personally thrive on news offered first-hand, shared through networking.
More often than not, when meeting in person, in real time, we believe what we see.
Being together with friends offers balance. Coming together on neutral ground, away from the unavoidable mainstream and the so-called ‘official’ sounding boards whether BBC, ITV, variations of … CBS, FOX … all that lot. By spending time and regularly sharing in person, we’re offered clarity, opinion and common ground. Bizability.
Group collaboration is often the perfect antidote to the single-channel sensational opinion.
There’s always someone who reminds me that choice is available. If you don’t like it, or overwhelmed by the news, turn it off and engage real people – you know I agree with that.
Dismiss the noise.
Then there’s Claude and Co. Life somehow becomes a little easier (decisions being made for us,) sadly, self-thinking and creativity are scuppered by the depth of ‘intelligence’ being collected and eventually reinvented. Individuality becomes tough to discern, clarity is lost, opportunity is soon stifled.
What I see coming is when our children become so reliant on ready-made solutions, independent thought and dynamics (actions) are redundant in a world where “everything has been let out of the box.”
There may still be time for independent thought to flourish before son of Claude (and Co!) ultimately predict when that time may be, conveniently creating its own flourish and in doing so, negate any opportunity the independent thinker may be offering …
Let’s keep thinking real, by allowing the individual to flourish, let’s try and believe only what we see, then consider whether that’s real or otherwise 😉
Learn more about the work of Edgar Allen Poe by watching The Fall of The House Of Usher, (1960)
I’ve been told recently that I need to re-read Alice in Wonderland, lighten up a little? Maybe that’s so.
‘People buy into people they know and trust.’
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