As many of you know, my personal and professional Life is wired around knowledge, data and facts and the appropriate application of each.
I grow concerned in the modern era when people who are not armed with facts use innuendo, intimidation and personal attacks to “persuade” people to see their side of things.
While many people who employ these tactics find it works for the easily intimidated, usually by the time they get to me, they find their “irresistible force” has met its match in the immovable object that is me and the question “How do you know?”.
When the world becomes governed by the loudest or the biggest bully on the street and not by knowledge, facts and the intellectual exchange of both, then it diminishes our claim to be living in the knowledge and information age and in fact, has the potential to set our world backwards in development and evolution.
All that being said, I read an article today published on April 19, 2012 by Rex Huppke, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune.
It’s title and tagline are:
Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012
In memoriam: After years of health problems, Facts has finally died.
The article is funny and disturbing and is highly recommended. I couldn’t say it better than Mr. Huppke has so aptly done – please check out his article here!
Maybe now it’s time for me to believe in reincarnation.
After all, if Facts has died, what hope do we have on this world unless Facts will somehow return?
As Mr. Huppke notes in his article:
“Facts is survived by two brothers, Rumor and Innuendo, and a sister, Emphatic Assertion.”
Disturbing indeed!
What is little known about Facts is that he was also a leader in the fight against three dangerous diseases in the world, namely the diseases of Indifference, Apathy and Ignorance.
The big question is - without Facts, who will save us now?
In service and servanthood,
Harry
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