You Should Cultivate a habit of asking "Why, When, Where, What, How?"

Why I chose this topic “Are People Thinking?” is, nowadays, most people blindly believe whatever information they receive, from any source (Social Media, TV, People, etc). They are least bothered to check its authenticity or background. The sender of the information knows and uses this behaviour of people, to manipulate the masses to their liking.

Examples:

* Climate Change:  Has our planet‘s climate become so bad as the experts claim. Has our knowledge of a few decades or centuries able to predict our Earth’s climate - when actually Earth’s climate has been changing continuously for Billions of years.

* Is Petroleum and Coal Fossil Fuels?:  When we were in School, in 1980s, they used to teach us that Petroleum and Coal are Fossil Fuels and are non-renewable, and its stock will be over by end of the century. Here we are now, still mining these, with the highest output in our history. (Output is estimated to increase in coming years). We are getting oil in every location and in least expected places. 

* Covid-19 and Vaccine: Is Covid-19 so dangerous (compared to other previous epidemics) so as to make the Governments impose strict “Restrictions and Lock-downs” (with all respect to the victims). How the Vaccine was developed so fast, when previous diseases like AIDS still has no vaccine. 

* War and Trade: War is destructive and Loss. Trade is constructive and profit.  Don’t you think our elected representatives should be diplomatic enough to encourage Trade between countries than to talk War? 

* Diet and Exercise: If someone post or speak about some diet or exercise and say it is good for you, people follow blindly without checking whether it is necessary for them.

In the above examples, I have not taken any sides. It is my intention, for you to ask questions and come to better conclusions.

The human mind works in strange ways. Whenever a person - even a highly trained scientist - starts an investigation based upon prior presuppositions, he is likely to try to make the facts fit his presupposition rather than letting the facts lead him to the proper conclusion.

Leaders think “The [people] are a flock of sheep, and we are their wolves”. And you know what happens when the wolves get hold of the flock? ...

As Albert Einstein has said “The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think”

Don’t always believe what others tell you. So start questioning anything and everything…