Information diet

One of those days when I felt I was taking in too much and not giving enough. My head seemed to be chocking with tons of information. It was like eating junk all through the day. With a zillion websites pouring in news from ridiculous to real healthy food for thought, and a zillion blogs talking about everything under the sun, I was feeling kind of pressurized to write something just so that I would feel better. But thats the irony. Now I am only adding to the already overflowing information channel.

"We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge" - Rutherford D. Roger

How aptly said. We browse through so many new sites. We have more information than ever before. But are we more knowledgeable? Are we more en lightened about our surroundings? To me, the converse is what is happening. With some much information, we hardly have any time to think and reflect on what we learn. There is no time to ask the important whys and hows. Its like reading a novel a day. Do we measure how well read we are by the number of novels we have read or by the
amount of time we spent analyzing and understanding, reading the lines multiple times and seeing whats in between the lines? Are we trying to read because we want to know or because we want to know more than the other person?

On a related note, I hate to watch television. It takes control over the pace at which information is sent to you. Its like watching a F1 race. Images fleet before your eyes. You dont get a chance to pause that, think and then proceed. You wink, you miss it. But in reality, we wont miss anything. Because it hardly gives you any room for interpretation. It does not allow for any feed back. We can both read the same set of words and infer differently. But we typically see the same - as shown on tv. And thats like mass fast food feeding the people with unnecessary information.
That reminds me of the news program I saw on a hindi channel at my neighbours place - it interviewed a bunch of girls who managed to get photographed with Rahul Gandhi - and how now their dream has been fulfilled. News item of terrific importance that can alter the course of world politics.

Looks like news (???) sources are only going to increase. So the onus is on people to restrict the intake. May be we will soon have people being informationally obese and then going on a low-information diet?

Patient: How much ever I try, I am not able to resist going to news.google.com once every 15 minutes and spending atleast 30 min :(.
Doctor: I have the perfect solution for you. The AtKiths Low Carb diet. I have a new browser that will automatically redirect you to my site
NoNewsIsGoodNewsBlashBlahBlah.com if you spend more than 5 minutes at any news site.


:). Anythings possible. :)