ignorance intolerance

I have a low tolerance for stupidity. I understand it can be construed as difficult to muddle through our modern world, but I have a feeling that it's the modern world that's producing and environment where it's easy to be ignorant. Information doesn't have to be learned, it can be found. With one key word in google, we have information on pet psychatrists at our fingertips. We don't have to learn where things are, we can just gps them or google map them. So if information is so easy to get at, why the prevalence of stupidity? I think it's exactly that. Information is so easy to get, we don't have to retain it, we have the security of knowing we can find whatever we want whenever we want. More and more common sense is becoming a scarce commodity because we don't need it- we just need google.

Why the rant regarding my ignorance intolerance? I've been victim to it several times today and it's still early. The starbucks girl- a long winded debacle that I will confine to my complaint letter. The email from some employee assuming I am the contact for parking concerns because I am listed as the webauthor for the whole hospital website. And to those, who, because email seems so much more modern than a letter, have lost all sense of any type of polite, business-like letter which is clear and concise but contains all of the information needed to reply or act with efficiency.

Our modern tools have most certainly contributed to the downfall of common sense and the diminshed valuation of the traditional learned individual. Back in the day, men and women were trained with a broad but deep knowledge of all subjects and even languages. They didn't have modern conveniences to enable a lazy passivity in honing their common sense and only viewing knowlege for it's usefulness rather than its intellecutal stimulus. Woe to the modern man, who most often loses a sense of poetry in a world filled with need-to-know.

To cap it off on a positive note, here are three things I'm grateful for since my last post:
1. Went to one of my favorite cocktail bars for a girlfriends birthday, and the third member of our childhood trio was there! It was great catching up with an old friend, and the three of us have plans for this weekend.
2. I finally vaccumed my house. Yay for no more super sized dust bunnies!
3. Today is Thursday, and I have a date......as to wheather I'm looking forward to it or not is still in the ambiguous stage.