A team of US and Canadian psychologists published some alarming research about ignorance a few weeks back. They announced the results that they suggested that the less they know about some complex social issue like the economy and the climate. The researchers found that people outsource responsibility for knowing about scary subjects to governments. For example, the more economically vulnerably they felt, the more likely they were to avoid consuming information that questioned the government’s economic competence. In other words: the worse this economy gets, the more you’re going to rationalize that look on George Osborne’s face. The one usually reserved, in bad dreams, for realizing you are trouserless at the bus stop as a sign that he knows what he’s doing.
This is simply more evidence for the head-in-the-sand phenomenon: by opposing it the awful problem gets the more distress you’d experience so that the harder you attempt to avoid that. However, the more hooking finding had to do with trust, the more composite a problem, the more people believe government to handle it and once you’ve trusted someone, you want to believe they’re trustworthy. One of the researcher stated that people avoid learning about the issue because that could shatter their faith in the government. The more complex an issue, the less you ought to trust others to know what they are doing.
Some right leaning commentators leapt on the research as proof that the government renders us dependent not that right wingers come out especially well in the ignorance stakes. There’s a survey revealed that Fox News viewers knew less about current events than those who don’t watch any news. However, the deeper point is not about politics. It is the insight on which Scott Peck, three decades ago based his bestseller The Road Less Traveled: Vast wrap of their action is covertly dispose by seeking to settle someone else. They give away their capability, dispute Peck to abate the pain of taking pledge, this makes sense when they are children. However, persisting at in adulthood breeds hurt and thus, ridiculously more of the pain they wanted to avoid.
REFERENCE:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/09/change-life-outsourcing-ignorance
