STANDARDS

We all need standards, that's why modern society works because of it. 

If you ride a plane, you want a competent and experienced pilot to fly the aircraft. And if you need a surgery, you'd better have that procedure with someone that has the competence and qualifications and experience of countless successful operations of similar nature.

Standards help our society be safe, healthy, and free from harm and danger and I can go on and on about how this is important that we continue to uphold standards in every imaginable field involving the public and our communities. 

If we have been let down by so-called expertise in the past few years especially during COVID, the alternative is  not a free-for-all free-fall. Free-for-all results in confusion and an opening for some malevolent actors to take the advantage of this confusion to sow more havoc. The alternative is more standards, more accountability for anyone or any thing that involves shaping or influencing policies, the public thought, and in particularly safety, wellness, and health involving the population. 

In different fields, standards are reviewed regularly and if found to be dated and ill-fitted for the current operational challenges and trends, are quickly readjusted. Professions conforming to standards are also evaluated based on the tenets and requirements of their practice. 

Nowadays, micro-influencers believe that with a camera and thousands of posts that they can tell you what to do with your life, health, finances, relationships, and careers. They're around to entertain and not qualified to dispense advice, if you're gullible enough to assume otherwise, you're doomed. 99% of these influencers are fake. They're not what you think they really are. And they're not accountable to anything or anyone except for the sheer goal of profits. 

Standards and a bit of gate-keeping is very important. We don't want influencers, late-night hosts, comedians, and celebrities giving instructions on how to conduct a war, adjust the national budget, and litigate a policy issue. And if you call them out of it, they would say, "What do I know, am just a ____. If you don't want that, just change the channel." 

Not easy when everyone pretends to be an expert, but no one what's to spend 10 years of studies and practicum and early failures to get that level of expertise. And everyone is also talking of the same thing, like the whole DEI issue that had gone overboard. I saw almost all black, indigenous, people of color professionals on LinkedIn become DEI experts in a span of few months talking about their pains, systemic racism, micro-aggression and wants society to pay them for their generational trauma. 

We, the people should put them in their place. 

That's why, Barbara Streisand was just asked by the audience, to 'just sing, please.'