It is often said that this is the age of information. You may be sitting in a remote village, without running water, electricity or decent road system, in India, but you could be connecting to internet through a mobile phone and knowing what is happening in Kenya or Argentina. Now it is a different matter that most of the time, unless it is a nuclear catastrophe, you really have no real need to know what is happening in Argentina, if you are in a continent 10000 miles away from it.
Our forefathers lived in a age of information vacuum. They did not even have newspapers, let alone Internet. But it is quite possible they were more happy individuals than people of today who are constantly being fed with information from ever increasing news media.
On the other hand it is possible that if they had access to information, they would have known in real time all the threats developing to their way of living in any part of the world. They might have known that some desert religions are forming somewhere with over zealousness and they will try to spread themselves to our part of the world. And as a consequence they might have been better prepared for such future attacks on our culture.
So to conclude: Is having too much information always good ? May be not. But having a choice of getting information is always better than having no choice.
1 comment:
It is not a information age, but information fart....if you think carefully you will realize we are all victims of journalistic nonsense...journalists write to fill pages and do their work...without realizing the impact on victims...that is the people who consume journalistic nonsense..It is like pornography ..most people who watch porn enjoy living in their perverted world without realizing that they are victims of porn creators...
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