No Easy Access
We live in the information age. News, facts and figures and gossip all at the touch of a button. But there’s a serious gap and disconnect. No easy access.
‘The information we know now and what we do with it gives us a score on the information technology scale. One that our neighbour might differ from us massively. It all starts at home.’
This is a big issue.
Our world divided by propaganda, media tycoons and agendas.
The media we consume to gather information and seem more intellectual and switched-on than we actually are dictates our behaviour.
The quality of our knowledge unlocks levels of intellectual communication, jobs and even life prospects.
When you’re younger, it’s more important to listen to the right things.
The right things pertaining to your environment.
My right things will be different to Bob’s down the pub.
As you get older, you gain access to more information. More untrue and more factual too.
Many of us, too impatient to wait for those times, make it up as we go along. Developing our own narrative. Creating a stream of words that make no sense to us. We follow trends to fit in against the norm, but to fit into the social ideal created around us.
To break the trend, to be patient and understand information as it becomes available to you — that’s hard.
You can expedite the process of information becoming available to you.
That’s possible too.
Read more. Experience more. Talk to people.
Information comes in many forms that isn’t just digital streams.
The trust in the media has hit an all time low.
Most people listen intently to stay informed, just enough so that they can find out more for themselves.
I believe that access to relevant information makes a journalist’s job nearly impossible.
It makes finding any job difficult.
It makes traversing life’s weaving path troublesome.
It makes it hard because we have nowhere to turn and no-one to trust.
We’re all taught similar subjects at school with different ciriculum.
The knowledge important to you at school is determined by the school.
Your school might not equip you the best for what you want to do.
Then you get the information gap.
The reason people hate their jobs is because they aren’t exposed to information that they see can help change their situation.
A new hobby. A new opportunity.
The reason life isn’t a straight line is because we only learn information at the last minute, often too late to rectify any situation that we damage.
No-one is to know all the information that will need in life, of course not.
But to find a job you enjoy, friends who make you feel valued, a path that makes you fulfilled requires looking at all the options and making an informed choice.
I’m sitting in my own personal information gap.
I’m looking at the academic year ahead and wondering.
Wondering how I’ll manage to keep up my grades, finish my dissertation, apply for jobs or masters.
I need to speak to some people about their experiences.
I need to take the advice onboard and then make a decision.
But right now, I sit in a hole. A hole of the unknown.
I know the rough lines that I want to do. What I want to achieve and spend my life trying to do.
I just don’t know the way in. Not the most successful way in. Just a way in generally.
I think everyone has their own continued information gap.
It’s important to recognise you’re not alone.
I think it starts with education, but it’s also influenced by your environment, friends and many other factors.
It’s multidimensional and therefore is impossible to track down.
The information gap is real.
No easy access.