Survey and Simplification

Survey are a gauge of sorts, representing features or characterizations of the whole.
A sample surveyed is said to represent the population from which the sample was derived.
Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.!

Between the Idiot and the Maniac

‘‘Have you ever noticed, in traffic, anybody going slower than
you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?’’
Our driving skills lie at either one extreme: the idiot or the maniac. 
Is it probable to be sane and somewhere in between? Not in India.

polarizing one world

It's true that true information is harder to get just as in the old days. When I was growing up there was just 2 channels by the same network. DD1 and DD2. So we had any information coming between our ears from 2 channels, one network.
You took that information and you formed your own opinions.

Now we have perhaps 30 news channels from varied networks.
And all 30 pretty much hum the same tune.
I doubt if competition or even multiple sources made any dent on the kind of information I am imbibing.

I think now, we don't form any novel or insightful opinions, we just go to the channel that plays our tune or are comfortable with. All of us pretty much hum the same song.
We have similar opinions about an event, we state the same causes for problems in our region and we pretty much voice the same recourse to a solution.

we are polarized to recite the same song without much ado.
and we seem to be doing a good job of it.

good films

A film where you spent a bit of time thinking about it.
The film makes you want to believe in its story.
And if a film can make you want to believe at some level, even if it's all humbug, it does you in.