The World Reduced to Infographics

“To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”
—Homer J. Simpson

Everyone loves pie, making the charts both easy to absorb and pleasant to imagine eating, which allows the delicious information or data filling to be all the more digestible.

With the infographic, however, before you even realize it, you’ve absorbed the information contained within it. The infographic is the Trojan horse of pedagogy. A stealth bomber with an explosive payload of pure data. A wet willy of knowledge inserted into the eager ear.

Unfortunately, the major knowledge-transfer systems, for all their positives, suffer from what scientists call the “Boredom Factor.” They simply take too much time or effort away from the modern person’s busy schedule of unhappy work and inane leisure distractions. Which is why illustrative epistemology champions the use of information graphics, or, shortened for increasingly shortened attention spans, infographics.

Illustrative epistemologists believe that how we transfer knowledge from one person to the next is the very essence of being human.

1. People like knowing things.
2. People hate learning things.

“A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.”

While the female mind perplexes men with its enigmatic complexity, the male mind similarly perplexes women with its unsophisticated simplicity.

We currently live in a golden age of booze consumption, with varieties of alcohol and mixers from around the world easily acquirable at the local corner store.

Beer is the oldest form of booze, and it is currently the third-most consumed beverage on the planet (after water and tea).