Blink
by Malcolm Gladwell is a book about where our decisions come from. If you are
enlightened you may be in tuned with your sub conscious mind. We all know that
the number of people that fit into this category is tiny. Most of the people
existing react to situations or follow orders. Almost everyone you come across
makes decisions based on gut instincts or faulty learning systems. Blink shows
how this form of decision making leads to tragic events. Some people have been
taught to think a certain way about other people, places, and things. When the
misled come in contact with people, places and things that they were ill
informed about, it usually ends badly.
Gladwell points out that solving this problem is not as easy as
punishing the person who commits deadly acts based on ignorance because we are
not in control of our educational systems until late in our lives. Even as
adults we are forced to go along with certain systems in order to maintain
food, clothing and shelter. As the systems have broken down now is a good time
to create better systems. Read Blink by Malcolm Gladwell to see how to create
real educational systems.
