Googling eggs

Wednesday 5th May


Because we can Google we don’t need to learn from established authority sources. Anyone’s access to the Net (or to publishing on the Net) helps to shed light on big and small issues as quickly as it occurs to us ... that we want to know something. In a flash we can find it.
Take an egg for example. We can Google ‘eggs’ and find out about their nutritional qualities, their means of production and what foods contain egg. With that information at hand (if we use eggs) we can learn how to use them and if we don’t use them we can find out more about why we don’t. This ability to gather information makes us more self-reliant. We know we can’t trust the words of politicians or advertisers (they’ve never told the truth!) and we can’t trust teachers and priests either because they don’t necessarily know much true information. And you can bet the authorised version is probably dodgy because so much has been deliberately designed to misinform.