Skepticism in Today's Society

The topic might have been more true in oldenbackground objectives of the politicians. This
days when ignorance was bliss. It is not asmistrust and suspicion comes from experiences
relevant with todays society. Skepticism is a partthrough the ages and will no doubt remain in the
of human nature and will always remain so.future.
Suspicion and mistrust come either from lack ofSimilar things happen in the corporate business
experience or from bad past experiences. It isworld. Enron, a multi billion dollar company 3-4
often when something or someone fails to meetyears back is now considered as a case study of
ones expectations or acts contrary to acceptedhow a business can collapse on falsely built ideals.
belief that one develops a sense of suspicion orThe market experts who could not predict the
mistrust for all future activities.Enron disaster are being chided by investors.
Galileo, Copernicus proposed groundbreakingArthur Andersen, supposed to be the numero uno
theories. What they said was totally contrary toof accounting and consulting is now nowhere. The
the then prevailing belief. They were accused ofexperts in lure of money manipulated papers and
heresy and mistreated. It is now we term themare now cooling their heels behind bars. In this
as experts who were simply ahead of their time.scenario, common people start losing their faith in
Today George Bush has declared war on Iraq,these big names. This has happened over the
but without full support of the world. Beingyears everywhere.
American President, he is supposed to be theIt is because of misappropriations and bad deals
most powerful man on earth. Even after clarifyingby few people who give an entire industry a bad
his motives and goals, there are many theoriesname. Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton will be
and rumours about his real objectives of the warremembered more for the scandals they indulged
which range from US taking control of Iraq's oil toin. Talking about politicians, there are actually
taking control of the world.honest and morally upright guys who enter the
If you take the field of journalism and newsfield with a magnanimous thought of improving
reporting, there is always a sense of mistrust inand uplifting society. Even their policies and
the minds of the people watching or reading thedecisions are taken apart by people to know
news. Very reputed and famous newspapers andwhat personal motives are hidden behind these
channels have been accused and quite sometimeshonest faces. Even if an Olympic runner runs a
proved of giving biased reports and in a waysuperb race without any drugs, there are rumours
influencing peoples beliefs. Politics has been timethick and fast that banned steroids might be the
tested. There won't be any country whosecase and so testing is necessary. One rotten
citizens believe their leaders and politicians aremango spoils the whole lot or can we say- gives
clean and god-men. No matter what happens inthe whole lot a bad grade.
politics, people always try to know the