In this new era of information age, we are constantly receiving information via many media from time to time whether we like it or not. It becomes more and more difficult to fully duplicate, evaluate and judge every piece of information for its validity, credibility and workability to many of us especially they could be mixed with a lot of false or contradictory data; while honestly many people do not know how to study (even with good grades) to make it more complicated in effective learning and sound judgement. It could explain the reason why some people may have established automatic blocking system to stop receiving any more information especially those requiring one’s own observation and evaluation so to prevent from falling into further confusion.
There’re a lot of chance for all walks of life of Hong Kong, especially students to be exposed to a lot of new knowledge, information and technology, as witnessed from our high attendance of the recent Hong Kong Book Fair, Hong Kong Computer and Communication Festival, etc, in the summer time.
I have also visited the recent book fair with over 900,000 visitors this year. Many book distributors utilized this as a channel to unload their inventory to appeal those looking for bargain sales, and there’re many books sold as cheap as $10 or $20. Indeed, there’re many book buyers. Yet, I also observed that many simply walked around without really checking or buying any books as the book fair event could serve as a “cool holiday spot” while one can sweat a lot with the high temperature outside. One major book distributor told me that the real book buyers will not come to the book fair as they prefer to check and buy books directly from the book store. In other words, it could refer to the fact that we don’t have a lot of people really “thinking”, or “looking” as the statistics of visitors indicated otherwise.
While it could be “study bug” to stop us from acquiring real knowledge, I noticed that it could be explained by a strange phenomenon in our modern society, that is “people simply don’t believe anything easily” to the extent that “they stop looking”. If we want to trace it down further, it could be possibly due to some kind of “failed help” or “having been betrayed” experience on oneself or and on others in the past to make one not believe in any possibility of “genuine help”.
Yet if one is really looking, one can still find some “genuine help” though not always from everyone to everyone in our society. Finding some genuine help in our society will raise your confidence and belief in the possibility of help, though may not happen on oneself directly.
If one sees that help is possible, it will definitely help to open the door of real knowledge as one seeks the knowledge which can help! If the knowledge is not for the use of help, what’s for?
There’re a lot of chance for all walks of life of Hong Kong, especially students to be exposed to a lot of new knowledge, information and technology, as witnessed from our high attendance of the recent Hong Kong Book Fair, Hong Kong Computer and Communication Festival, etc, in the summer time.
I have also visited the recent book fair with over 900,000 visitors this year. Many book distributors utilized this as a channel to unload their inventory to appeal those looking for bargain sales, and there’re many books sold as cheap as $10 or $20. Indeed, there’re many book buyers. Yet, I also observed that many simply walked around without really checking or buying any books as the book fair event could serve as a “cool holiday spot” while one can sweat a lot with the high temperature outside. One major book distributor told me that the real book buyers will not come to the book fair as they prefer to check and buy books directly from the book store. In other words, it could refer to the fact that we don’t have a lot of people really “thinking”, or “looking” as the statistics of visitors indicated otherwise.
While it could be “study bug” to stop us from acquiring real knowledge, I noticed that it could be explained by a strange phenomenon in our modern society, that is “people simply don’t believe anything easily” to the extent that “they stop looking”. If we want to trace it down further, it could be possibly due to some kind of “failed help” or “having been betrayed” experience on oneself or and on others in the past to make one not believe in any possibility of “genuine help”.
Yet if one is really looking, one can still find some “genuine help” though not always from everyone to everyone in our society. Finding some genuine help in our society will raise your confidence and belief in the possibility of help, though may not happen on oneself directly.
If one sees that help is possible, it will definitely help to open the door of real knowledge as one seeks the knowledge which can help! If the knowledge is not for the use of help, what’s for?
