The political analysts all around the world post Afghanistan withdrawal were predicting a Cold War between China and United States of America. No one expected the rivalry between the West and Russia to return, or at least not expected it for yet. The recent war between Russia and Ukraine took everyone by surprise, and still no one is sure of the fate that is to come.
The dawn of 2020 brought to us a pandemic which no one of us imagined. The way it brought the whole world to stand still, no one ever thought of such pandemic and restrictions or at least no one was sure of the exact moment of it to occur. The countries which claimed to have a great Health Care System, even they failed in their claims. We saw health care all around the world crumbled.
From the economic recession in 2008 to the economic recession by COVID-19 pandemic, none were predicted timely nor economists around the world expected recession on such scale. No businesses around the world were ready for this, and many crumbled. In it were the businesses who thought of themselves as the most stable, but still crumbled. The world economy suffered trillions of dollars of losses accompanied by a surge in poverty, unemployment, and crime rate.
No one in the 20th century ever imagined of smartphones and connectivity though internet that these innovations brought to the 21st century except of the few curious minds who opted for the unknown. But in order to have more such positive innovations, we need an increase in the number of curious minds in every discipline of academics.
So, the cases that I presented above were about all the things that we either did not know or failed to timely evaluate. It is all because of putting the whole burden of humanity on a few curious minds. It is not possible for them to evaluate every possible threat bounding towards humanity and come up with new solutions. We require more Elon Musk’s to come up with new solutions. We require more Noam Chomsky’s to bring the world together. This is all possible through one imperative, I KNOW NOTHING. Learning for the sake of change and not degree or job.
To achieve the goal of change, we have to stay away from two psychologies. One is of stubborn who openly says I know everything. These are people for whom future we must mourn because future is all about uncertainty and uncertainty can only be avoided by opting to know of it. Second, there are people who do not say I know everything but their actions do point towards the rhetoric of I know everything because they do not possess curiosity and knowledge comes through curiosity.
This psychology of knowing everything is disastrous for Third World countries in specific and the developed nations in general. We live in a globalised world where any activity in one corner of the world impact the whole world and therefore, to survive in a globalised world one must have knowledge of what is happening in the world and this knowledge will come through curiosity to know the unknown.