Professional Idiots

[Qwark]

Nymeria said:

Qwark said:

I game for the larger part of my live. Yet I know what CPU, GPU and what the Motherboard do. I don't have a single clue hoe it works other than and I quote captain america for this one "It seems to run some sort of electricity" and sends positive and negative signals to a transistor which counts it and a code with 0's and 1's made which somehow makes me able to play games. I have no idea how to build computerparts or what the structural difference is between a CPU and a GPU.

Exactly, I'm much the same way.  

When labor and society became so specialized we don't need to be aware.  This can filter across though when people think their ignorance is equal to another's knowledge.  If you have a question about vaccines, talk to people in medical fields, don't discuss it with Janice at work who heard on the internet it causes autism.  This becomes a problem when other's ignorance then can adversely affect us, especially if they can infludence others.  

In a previous post I called this the Facebook gen phenomenon. In which people assume their coworker or Facebook is more reliable than an evidence based journal or article written by a professional. This one is dangerous because more and more people seem to be very much into Facebook and Twitter news which has very little credibility or they just blindly follow youtube celebrities which neatly always try to push a certain agenda.