College of the Clueless

You see the problem with pablum of this variety isn’t the audacious presumptive pseudo-science spewing from this fear monger’s pie-hole, it’s our willingness to share it without even a moment’s pause. We read a headline, we become enraged, we repost. Share first, ask questions…never? For some reason we seem unusually predisposed to lend credence to whatever conspiracy theory of the day our newsfeed force feeds us. We gobble down the poppycock and vomit the best buzz words back out in pithy little fits of slacktivism. All GMO gluten toxin antibiotic and ultimately science free. Someone jacked our natural skepticism and substituted it for big dumb grins of viral gullibility. The interwebs are crawling with false talisman that give the impression of substance and we are but blind spiders, responding to any vibration by spinning cocoons of ignorance around carcasses of misinformation. It’s only later when we seek nourishment from these empty shells that the insipidity of the illusion becomes clear. But really, we have ourselves to blame…You see we are willing to accept even the most preposterous musings from charlatans like Ms. Hari and her sorority sister from the College of the Clueless, Jenny McCarthy, simply because they have pretty smiles and boobs. For every legitimately smart and accomplished woman, I share in your indignity because in this way we have become as collectively well informed and similarly guided as an adolescent penis. We have become literally big walking phallus’s in pursuit of the next Playboy Bunny to enlighten us. Such nearsightedness is entirely of our own design. If you don’t believe in evolution how can you be expected to evolve much beyond our most primitive slobbering selves? If we run howling from the tenets of science, bury heads in sands of the sophomoric, then the doors of perception will remain welded shut and we will be none the wiser for the lose. We live in an age where we have access to the deepest compendium of human knowledge ever known and instead we chose to plunge blindly into the shallow end of the internet and wonder why we split our heads wide open on the bottom.Look, I’m as guilty as the rest of us. Read an article front to back? Ain’t nobody got time for that. So next time the urge to participate in “Click and share” overcomes you, take a moment, think it through, consult another source (Snopes, Wikipedia, common sense) and scroll down your feed to the next unbelievably-adorable-can’t-miss-must-see cat video. That is unless the post you just read is this one then share the shit out of it!