My daily struggle is to understand what is important, to my situation, in the constant barrage of information on the Internet. What can and should be ignored? Is my purpose to seek distraction, novelty and entertainment? Or is the goal and purpose to my Net Surfing to gain valuable knowledge? What do I hope to accomplish?
“There are things that attract human attention, and there is often a huge gap between what is important and what is attractive and interesting."
- Yuval Noah Harari
And Donald Trump has not helped make being informed easy with all his mixed messages.
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“There are things that attract human attention, and there is often a huge gap between what is important and what is attractive and interesting."
- Yuval Noah Harari
And Donald Trump has not helped make being informed easy with all his mixed messages.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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