OUR LETTERS AND WORDS

As a specie, Homo Sapien Sapien, we have truly gone over and beyond from what our predecessors were. From scavenging primates to highly digitalized individuals. The process had its ups and downs, taking a thousand years to even stand where we are right now as humans and as a collective society.

Through this long and strenuous process, aside from our crafty hands, the other mechanism of our evolution is not an object but an innate ability has that has served as the jet fuel to our progress, the power of communication, our letters and words, joined together to become the bridge of our past and into the future. From the oldest cave paintings, that were found in La Pasiega Cave in Spain that signified our ancestors trying to use letter-like prints on the walls to individuals of the digital text. We have gone further than what we were then.

In today’s time, the once written word has now became digitalized, spread to every nation of the world with more than a million people per day having access to that singular information, and with each day, millions of digitalized texts, are being uploaded into the cloud for people to have access to. A million of information per second is bombarded into our stratosphere, the marginal logistics of such is immensely incomprehensible.

But with this abundant light of information, is the dark shadow of falsification and fraudulent information that corrupts and bugs the system. And like a shadow, it is able to mirror itself with the real information. The problem now arises as a huge number of individuals believe the shadow; they are immediately dragged to that darkness. Society’s lack of empathy towards information filtration has became a disease that continuous to plague society and will continually plague society for the coming years unless something immediate will be done to intervene and stop such a trend of believing to the lies that the information world has come to offer.

The reality of society is that those who live to spread wrong information would always exist, the means to eradicate them is near to difficult, thus the only way is to educate the public and unsubscribe to such individuals. Society, the public, especially the young ones who are more submerged to the digital world should be taught that empathic ability to distinguish the truth from the mere replication and complete fraudulent information. Teaching the public these would mitigate and lessen people subscribing to immediately believing what they see. They should be taught to sieve through these vast seas of information available in the cloud as these would lead to much more informed and knowledgeable people rather than people who walk around with false information flowing in their cerebral fluids.