the Metrollectual

“I have read the entire internet. And I can quote and do quote it in every discussion!” Met that person? Crossed their path yet? Been forced to a corner and bombasted and assaulted with unactionable info? Its usually your average educated person, your anti-vaxxer, your Trump supporter, your overeager networker and sometimes even your science ethicist. Nothing wrong with knowledge and reading but when someone dawdles in mere detail or fails to step out of the box or is convinced they don’t need to listen … then … at the very least their conversation is tedious and more than likely their unnecessarily static opinions and stale sales pitch will lead them and perhaps some part of the world into a cubbyhole.

Their malady manifests due to three reasons

• an over abundance of partially baked info (even if well meaning) on the internet that supports every possible point of view,
• the giddy pseudo community provided by social media and finally
• the focus on reading rather than on consideration and questioning that results in partial expertise, self aggrandization and er … head edema.

The end effect is severely biased and passive-aggressive thinking that often finds itself defending its subscription to uncooked thinking as “intellectuality” or worse yet “rights to the … multiverse”.