The volume of Information

The sheer volume of everything which has been written and it’s acessability is something quite remarkable. But it also poses questions. See if you were interested in studying anything for that matter, 500 years ago you had to either live with a king or a priest, in short you had to be extremely lucky.

Then you had to read through hand written books, travel if you wanted to talk to other people who were similarly interested or write letters.

I would argue that these constraints made actual thinking possible. Of course you want to know if someone has thought something before you, probably that is true anyway. But there is no way, to sif through every accessible information there is today.

First you need to know your interest. Then you need to ask a question. And then you need a filter. From big to fine. And on every level you need to make a value judgment about the information.

This is difficult. Just knowing more does not help. You need wisdom to do that. There is no way around it. And how do you get wise?

You fear the lord. And you pray for wisdom.

That’s how you get wise. Which then allows you to filter through everything there is. Then you start to see a connection in every written Information. Like a golden thread in a hay stack. You grab it and start to pull. Then you continue to weave on this marvellous cloth of human thought.

But first there is fear and prayer.