The Big Lie About Truth

Have you noticed that technology has expanded the way in which humans now communicate, share information and collaborate to create new things faster than ever before.

But has the human ability to assimilate the massive volume of information now available, and the evaluate it in a reasonable time to make timely decisions. The answer is NO!

As humans we were educated in the Socratic way of thinking, innovating and making decisions. Each new thought expanded upon previously validated information. Thus evolution of products, ideologies and systems was progressive, but slow. It was also confined to facts previously held as 'true'.

Today, information sharing and collaborative thinking has transformed innovation from a single vertical stream to multiple parallel streams that do not require to follow a deductive evolutionary path. Rather than expand of previous notions - new ideas can be induced from any source.

This heralds a new framework for information development - one which the human brain has not been trained to handle. We distrust anything that does not relate to something which we have previously trusted. We are bounded by our own view of reality - our own truth.

Well guess what - Truth is the biggest con every introduced to man. It relies on judgments made by other people, in other circumstances, for other agendas. Whilst there are fundamental human principles to do others no harm - there is no reason for each of us to adopt the choices made by others for their lives, and their businesses. Each individual and organization must define its own beliefs, its own truths and its own agendas.

Naturally, those concepts that receive support from others survive. Those that do not, generally fade into non-relevance and cease to exist in the present.

Truth is a judgment in a single passing moment. What is true today may equally be proved untrue tomorrow. And what has been previously deemed untrue in the past, may in fact be true. It just wasn't fully appreciated at the time, or was judged out of context.

Thus we must be extremely careful in what we deem to be true and untrue.

We will gain most from the vast world of information by changing the way we process information and seek the decisions that support our objectives. It is foolhardy to expect to be able to do this one fact at a time using the human brain. Our brain is not capable of seeing let alone computing all the complexities of the business world today and making decisions that align with the very small windows of opportunity presented to us. We are best served by using business intelligence technology to evaluate and filter information and present us with the best selection of options from which we can then apply our human decision making capability.

Man has not evolved with sufficient speed to operate in the world that technology has now redefined. We must merge with the strengths of technology and embrace it for its value or risk falling behind into a mediocre society. We have the opportunity to move beyond the barbaric attitudes of enforcing a single truth upon mankind, and instead seek to embrace a world of creativity merged from the inputs of many individuals.

We have the freedom to move beyond the constraints where for something to be right, everything else must be proven wrong. This type of fanaticism and arrogance has no place in the modern world. It has been outpaced by higher forms of intelligence that will lead us as a global community to far higher places than we ever before thought possible.
This is one decision technology cannot make for us, and unfortunately if the human race cannot speed up its own intellectual evolution we are doomed to fail ourselves and our future.

©Gail La Grouw. To learn more about how you use technology to communicate, share information and collaborate to create new things faster than ever before, get a copy of The Logical Organization here.

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