Human.bandwidth

Once it was, more information = more truth = better society. This has changed. We have drown in a flood of information and became less wise, less able to navigate meaning and more vulnerable to manipulation. The philosopher Harari is saying that and he’s spot on.

I’m reading an old Steinbeck novel, Travels with Charley. Steinbeck sets off in a campervan on a road trip across the United States to rediscover the country and its people. One of his observations are how the people he sees loose the taste of things for the sake of cleanliness and then rely on condiments like ketchup or mustard to enhance their food:

“(T)he sense of taste tends to disappear and that strong, pungent, or exotic flavours arouse suspicion and dislike and so are eliminated.

. . . if this people has so atrophied its taste buds as to find tasteless food not only acceptable but desirable, what of the emotional life of the nation?”

Mmm, Remember this: