“People”, stated last night Gavagai, “always finish by getting a black hole right in their brains.” And this is how it happens.
Traditionally, we are taught that at birth, in spite of Chomsky and Descartes and according to Locke, humans know nothing. During their entire lives, they acquire a huge amount of information about themselves, the life, universe and everything. This is likely to be the result of a complex evolutionary process which
made our species survive and rule. According to the optimistic theory of mind, we are something like the absorbent paper, getting wetter by and by.
Nevertheless, an attentive observation of the human life course leads to a rather different (and pessimistic) conclusion. Indeed, one can easily notice that during the first decades of their lives, people keep acquiring information. But, it is also quite evident, this process of acquiring simply stops. It happens out of blue, when the absorbent paper gets too wet (i.e. saturated), and this is why we can’t teach our parent anything about the real world we miserably live in. After this moment of saturation (“intellectual maturity”, as people call it to flatter themselves), the blocks of information we never use (such as the dates of all Civil War battles) get hard-pressed. The pressure in the futile information area critically increases. The futile information becomes heavier and heavier. After a while, bang, it reaches the gravitational collapse, which produces a black hole attracting and destroying all the useful information we have had. And this is how we become senile.
Subsequent to an in-depth analysis of these data, Mirinda Panta (the director of the Nepalese National Institute for Science) draw the conclusion that only a revolution in our educational institutions could save the mankind from a generalized state of senility.
— scris de gavagai