Life Lesson # 18

In this age of information overload, it is way too easy to believe that we are privileged to all the information available. We think we know everything about a proposed law or bill, a celebrity, a high profile court case, an organization, a sporting event or television competition, etc. In reality, we only know the amount of information that we are allowed to know. We only have the information we are given, and are not the ones in control of its distribution. It completely conceivable that we are less knowledgeable of world affairs than we were prior to the invention of the internet, cable television, computers, laptops, smart phones and tablets. We are not necessarily in possession of more truth, just because we are given more information. More often than not, that information is incomplete, misrepresented, or downright false. In other words, the distribution of propaganda has never been so efficient.