Giving and Taking information

Information is obtained and passed along the newest generation. In this essay I will mainly concentrate on the ways information is given. Most of the people get their information by reading but the trend of getting information by watching or listening to some other deliver it by making a presentation or just giving a speech has been growing rapidly which shifted the most important aspect in passing the information from its content to the way it’s delivered. With the increase in popularity of motivational speakers whom gained their audience not from informative nor helpful speech but rather from manipulation and presenting information that the individual wants to hear rather than needs to hear, it became more and more apparent that this shift in the importance of the way in which information is delivered has grown with the communicative technologies. Individual now has the ability to choose the information he wants to conceive thus he started to pander more to his primitive self rather than intellectual self, let me elaborate. The way we like to receive information comes from evolution, we evolved to perceive the information that was accompanied by specific hand or rather body gestures that used to mean that the provided information was useful, hence we evolved to be more welcoming when we get our information delivered this way. Now we are more focused on the way the information is delivered blindly trusting everything said by charismatic leaders. The problem is that we evolved to manipulate this trait of ourselves, now we have the ability to use our intelligence to learn new more effective ways delivering information and manipulating people which fueled the numbers of motivational speakers. Perhaps if individual took the words said by charismatic person and tried to rationalize what was presented to him he would come to the conclusion that he was being manipulated. The way you present the information is art by itself and I’m not trying to argue that we need to get rid of it, rather I want people to try turning off their excitement and just listen to the words that are being presented to them because most of the time you will come to find that those smart people aren’t smart at all they are just good at deceiving people and that theirs absolutely nothing special about them.