I
like to figure things out.
In
this day and age, information is not only accessible, it is readily accessible.
Sometimes it’s a little too easy to get your hands on information (ie. the
NSA.) That’s why we’re not allowed to use our smart phones during trivia.
Google has made it so easy to know what you want to know.
I
wouldn’t really say this is a bad thing. My students have it so easy compared
to when I was in school; who needs a library when everything you need to know
is on the web. Hell, I had it a thousand times easier than when my parents were
in school. We still have encyclopedias at my house.
The
other night, Taylor and I doing that thing where we stay up late in bed talking
about random stuff. We were trying to figure out what the highest
(altitude-wise, not pot-wise) city in America was. We used our knowledge of
geopgraphy, what little of it we possess, to try and figure it out.
We
were pretty close. Turns out the highest (capitol) cities are Santa Fe,
Cheyenne and Denver. Why this matters? It honestly doesn’t. But my phone was literally two feet from me. I
could have googled it. Instead we figured it out first.
In an
age where we never have to think for ourselves, intellect is slowly dying out. Original
thought and the purposeful arrangement of knowledge are being removed from
modern society. Thank god for trivia, right?
Challenge
to my Readers:
Exercise
your mind. Ask questions you don’t know the answer to and try to figure them
out for yourself before you reach for your Iphone.
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