Is it really ‘wisdom of the crowds’?
The zeitgeist is filled with comments, reviews, recommendation engines and collective bias. There is ample arsenal at everyone’s disposal to judge, critique, offer an opinion on anything and everything. Most of the world is gainfully employed doing this. So, the jury need not be out on this one.
Someone else’s opinion of you, your art or business is NONE of your business. Because a lot of the input coming in is irrational with utter disregard to the rational context it has to be perceived in. They are not emotionally connected but given the infinite freedom of expression inventory at their disposal, they find a way to say something. And in any case, humans are woefully slack at explaining our irrational feelings in the context of rational reasons. So, we make things up. Fill the void. Without realising that it ends up being void and baseless.
Your daughter applying for University or a close one getting admitted to a hospital. Yes, a second opinion might matter. Generally though, in public domains, the comments or recommendations may not align with relevance and reality.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance- Plato. Be careful how you operate on the altar of ‘ collective bias ‘.
ENDS
NOVELIST, ADVERTORIAL WRITER & THESIS BOOSTER, CITIZEN JOURNALIST
1 年It appears that you are still obsessed with Herd Mentality syndrome in terms of its certification which is never taken as wisdom. It is led by the bellwether. Humans with that animal spirit are often become herd the same way without using their mental faculty. Using mental faculty is a challenge and therefore, they are laggards. In this context, they apply for themselves the same theory of being led by the bellwether. The theory that doesn't give you the paradigm of freedom of thought and independent thinking could be summarily regarded as 'wisdom of the crowds'. In other words, in our safety zones we want to be herd and not to be developed into courage of standing alone. Be awakened and aware for not to be Zeitgeist or an animal from among herd or crowd to avoid collective bias. Is that sounds true, Suresh?!