Much is made of the information overload of the modern era.
With the 24/7 news cycle, multiple feeds, and social media, we have a proliferation of information. This has been an exaggerated feature of the pandemic: endless Covid ‘live feeds’, whether it is ‘second wave updates LIVE’ or ‘vaccine roll-out LIVE’. Commentators then perpetuate this with near-instant reflections on these live updates.
If information was water, then this is the equivalent of a perpetual monsoon. As we feel overwhelmed, many focus on how to stop the rain falling so quickly. I think this is tackling the problem in the wrong way. The real issue is that the monsoon has exposed cracks in our roofs. And while a mere drizzle allows the cracks to pass unnoticed, in a monsoon the water starts pouring in and we feel overwhelmed. In the metaphor the cracks are deficiencies in the ways that we process information. We need wisdom.
Is this what happens when science rejects faith?
There is a neuroscientist called Eliezer Masliah. He researched dementia and other similar diseases for reputable bodies in the United …