The Fuzzy View of Vagueness

As human beings evolved we have all accepted a certain amount of vagueness that is required to interact with each other. Sometimes vagueness is polite and purposeful and sometimes it is just a case of facts left out in error. There are people or groups that require vagueness because they are not trying to get to the black and white facts or figures or the hard cold content of an interaction; but they are into the more abstract and creative or colorful experience that the encounter or experience entails. And of course, as in a court of law interaction or money interaction sometimes the vagueness is very calculated and can be quite profitable or successful. There are professional vagueness experts who are known as attorneys, sales people, politicians, motivational speakers, spiritual and religious leaders, etc. who are vague communicators for a living.

Now that the internet is so readily available to all of us; it is very interesting that people do not constantly look up facts and figures right at the time a conversation is in progress. The younger a person is, the more they are acclimated to do look up data; trusting the hard cold facts online or in research and print; than to carry on a vague dialogue about an inaccurate finding. Where as the "old school" required timely checking with scholars on a subject, or books or libraries, etc. now most facts (verifiable or not) can be summoned in a nanosecond.

Television and the media have also changed our vagueness tolerance and especially the reporting of the news. The journalism required reporting has always been the unwritten rule to bring a story with the basics of who, what, when, where, how. Now even the most professional of news casts are filled with opinions and innuendos of judgments without anyone batting an eye at the subjected bias that this causes. Some of the "Blogs" that are structured to look like a professional news agency site reporting on facts and figures can also be no more than someone else's opinion without any data or research to back up hard cold information required.

So in these times where change is constant and keeping up with all of the data thrown at us on a daily basis is a required challenge; we must be careful what we take in as fact or is it just fuzzy vague but entertaining rhetoric. It sure is ironic that the more communication and technology that we have at our disposal is just making it harder and harder to communicate and trust our relationships and everyone else's dialogue and actions.