Consumers of content. More information - less understanding
A modern average person receives approximately 10 times more information (by volume) from various sources every day than an average person in the middle of the 1980's. A special role is played by the Internet, the abundance of television and radio channels, the ability to contact relatives, friends, colleagues at any time from almost anywhere in the world.
This information flow has its own downside. If earlier the receipt of information by a person was appreciated, today we do not attach much importance to 90% information. This is an informational background with which we are forced to live.
A separate aspect is the relevance of information. 30 years ago, a separate information event could remain relevant for weeks, or even months. Today there is so much informational slag that information can remain relevant at best for a couple of days, or more often for several hours.
A person has a special feature: to receive information without passing it through himself.
On the one hand, huge information flows allow us to know more, on the other hand, to understand less. The information background actually dulls the population, makes content consumers out of people even without the desire to delve into it. Hence the fashion for short messages, tweets. Hence the desire to comment on material that did not bother to finish reading at least until the middle. Hence the reaction to the picture without going into what is written under it.
About why we less and less understand the world we live in - philosopher Alexander Dugin on the Day TV channel:
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