An unreliable public comment

Small bet: The "public discourse" in this article refers to a variety of "mainstream perspectives" that are prevalent in society, rooted in the human mind, or social networks, Internet-based statements that are known or disseminated to most people on the web, or political reviews that are released to the public through authoritative institutions. "Not reliable" does not mean "speech" is not correct, but refers to "unreliable", "lack of scientific arguments" or "lack of depth."

If a person who seems talkative is exposed, it is considered to be a sham; if a talented person is silent, people think he is not talkative.

This is ridiculous! It is clear that they will not distinguish who is really talkative people, instead of blaming others for poor speech,-to know, really deep communication, who is not talkative still hard to say!

This actually reflects a very important question: public discourse is often based on authority, not on facts. The right to speak has the following ways:

1. Parental authority acquired as a result of custody of the child's upbringing. Parents say that what is true to conform to the law of fact, the child has to listen to, even if the parents of the world's observation and opinion is likely to be one-sided or even wrong;

2. Teachers ' authority to assign temporary custody for educational scenarios. The teacher authority is more reasonable than the parental authority, because the teacher teaches the knowledge to be based on conforms to the fact, is more reasonable, and does not have the strong blood relation with the student, cannot treat the student casually. However, it can be quite certain that in life, in the people's psychological and behavioral awareness, teachers know not much, so in the face of unruly students, also often abuse authority to punish students, rather than adopt a more effective way to guide students.

3. The authority of the boss arising from the professional scene. The boss authority and the teacher authority is similar, the boss is to pay the person, at the same time in the work life has the more thorough experience and the experiences, obtains the discourse authority also to be reasonable. But please note that the real workers, not succumbing to the boss, but semi-collaborators, using their own intelligence and time and energy for the boss to obtain the company's benefits, while obtaining their own due return. Getting paid is the result of a cooperative mechanism, not given by the boss's compassion. Real workers have the ability to choose who to work for, including working for themselves. As the same person, the insight and the ability of the working people may not be inferior to the boss. Think of the Google founders who were hired as migrant workers to apply for the refusal of the search company, even if rejected, does not affect the founders ' own judgment. Wisdom and judgment do not have a clear and strong connection with the position in which they are located. If a person has enough wisdom and judgment, he should be able to fight for the right position.

4. The authority of public opinion arising from public opinions. Let's say the parade is now. The instructor shouted to the left, and the people around you turned right, so you are likely to turn right. Social psychology confirms that people's behavior is actually affected by the public speech, many of today's city to buy a car's speech is so "inspire" every struggling young people, regardless of whether to buy a car is really reasonable, whether it can be better solved by other means, anyway, everyone thinks so, But few people really think carefully about why they do this and how to do it more appropriately.

5. Authority arising from temporary status or through the authority of others. If a person is the CEO of a company, I am afraid that the person's posture and speaking tone have changed, although wisdom and judgment will not be changed because of the status of Ascension.

Public discourse is a terrible thing. Unreasonable public discourse on the behavior of every individual in society has a great negative guidance role, in fact, the social psychology masterpiece "rabble" has long pointed out that the group is a very low IQ of irrational organisms, groups are not good at speculation, easy impulse, susceptible to the impact of the trouble, resulting in a lot of controversy and no conclusion. The biggest advantage of the group is that in the early stages of the discussion, brainstorming can be used to gather as many suggestions and ideas as possible, the so-called brainstorming, but it still takes only 3-5 people to make the decision. To do one thing, a small team of 3-5 people is also the most efficient.

The sad thing is that we have never learned how to make statements in a reasoned manner, often actively or passively obeying a lot of authoritative arguments. If human freedom of speech is based on authority rather than facts, it is hard to imagine how much progress society can make. Although technology seems so "developed", people's thoughts still remain in primitive society.

Why do I say that public opinion is not reliable? In recent times, I have seldom spoken and talked very little,-mostly with little common topic. Many people like watching TV shows, watching variety show, talking about house car stock, but I am accustomed to learning new things, to learn something seems more: poetry, art, design, psychology, program design, engineering technology, Tai Chi, cooking, etc., there is time to learn some harmonica, dance, although I know money still want to earn, The house still wants to buy, the life big thing still must seize the solution, the time is not enough to use,--I more in listens, is watching. Read all the comments on the Internet, read some comments on TV, listen to people around you, talk about stocks, talk about life, discuss work matters. After studying psychology and life, I began to enjoy the quiet observation and listening, more clearly see myself and people's behavior, how to live and engage in various activities in life, and can try to understand people's various "rational or irrational" character and behavior. To understand the relationship between themselves and society, so that their mentality more stable and calm, may wish to calm down to learn psychology:)

I found that: all kinds of comments on the Internet, including the TV, the political review, mostly based on the following five elements of a simple combination:

1. Recent focus events;

2. Limited observation and experience of the society;

3. Some of the views and arguments that have been seen before;

4. A very little orthodox legal or ethical consideration;

5. Personal inference that is not based on scientific rigorous analysis.

It is very prudent to make public statements that are correct and reasonable, and at the very least should be justified (except by spreading rumors or improper statements to the exclusion of confusing or ulterior motives). In my opinion, a truly reasoned conclusion should come from:

1. Long-term exploration and understanding of the law of social development;

2. In-depth understanding and understanding of human psychology and behaviour;

3. Combine scientific analysis and reasoning in the fields of economics, political Science, psychology and related disciplines.

But:

1. It is more and more difficult for people to learn in silence;

2. It is becoming increasingly difficult to explore or delve into a skill;

3. A large number of debris information is obtained from various sources and combined to form the basis of their own decision-making;

4. People are beginning to lose their ability to systematically and scientifically analyze and think, to lose independent judgment and to be unaware of their own drift.

The result is that the human mind particles do not have the knowledge and rules of guidance, no goal without direction of swimming, random collision and produce some ideas, and those who appear reasonable and can be accepted by the public as their own views published. This is the process of most people's conventional thinking and decision making. In fact, these views do not have a solid basis for the law of things, and thus do not produce a truly effective force and role.

If you cherish your own time, please spend less time to pay attention to a variety of boring or useless or unhelpful public comments, calm down, give yourself more time to meditate on the things you like, explore the basic problems, calm down to observe the society, observe and think about people's speech and behavior, independent to discover the truth.

Next time, when you read those public comments, try to find the scientific argument on which it is based. How is it based on the law or trend of social development? Based on the understanding of human psychology and behavior? What kinds of knowledge are used in scientific analysis and reasoning?

Do an experiment: keep only the knowledge and wisdom that is extremely useful to humankind. In my opinion, there are four main parts:

1. The wealth of knowledge and experience and skills accumulated in all walks of life are essential;

2. The basic ideas, principles and methods that people have accumulated in science, design, industrial manufacture and humanistic creation are necessary;

3. Literary and artistic works are necessary;

4. Simple social etiquette is required.

Obviously, public speech is a bunch of nonsense, food is tasteless, discard it is not worth a pity.

A person is fully capable of not relying on public opinion, to carefully collect and comb facts, observe and think, analyze and reason, to establish his own unique judgment, wisdom and action, to develop his own unique concept of life and lifestyle, and to be better than "average" in his own unique way.

An unreliable public comment