Seek and Ye Shall Find, 2

On the other hand, missing out the real whys is far from being consequence−free, as it opens another door: that through which the wrong whys get more and more accepted and hard to unmask, a cage more and more tight and hard to escape.
In short, appearances are deceptive, and some courage proves to be a wiser investment.

Finally, someone calls our times the age of information; it could be said that in our history there is an ancient age and a modern age, and the difference lies in the ease of access to information: yesterday we went to the information, today it’s the information that comes to us. Once our limited and thus precious energy had to be invested in digging out the truth from the scarcity of data of the material universe; now it has to be invested in digging out the truth from the overabundance of data of the human universe.
Once we had to risk our neck and take the world by the horns to pry each datum out of it, today all we have to do is be diligent enough to sift the congestion of data besieging us, while comfortably seated in front of the internet, in the media, in libraries, public archives and the alike.
In the ancient age the problem was ignorance: most of the time our troubles were due to our lack of knowledge, such as touching the fire, a natural element; in the modern age the problem is the breach of trust: most of the times our troubles are due to someone’s lack of rationality or ethics, such as bugs and backdoors in software, and social engineering in the media.
What did not change indeed are the shady reasons for some to oppose or sabotage our quest.
Therefore we still have to go out and investigate; what has changed is that, while yesterday we had to risk our neck too, today we just have to keep our spine straight and our eyes open.
So, let’s see that we’re up to our good fortune of living in the modern age.