Go for the blue one. Vote for the democrat. We don't have the time or energy to learn about health insurance, the ins and outs of our power company, or where our produce comes from, but you can rest assured insurance companies, electricity marketers, and biogenetic food processors do. Because, you know, it'd be great to have the form reflect the content. Besides, without reducing stuff down, you wouldn't be able to talk about it.
Information makes a pretty unlikely boogieman.
Information itself is not the problem. This gets to what I think is a huge weakness in Shenk's book. He offers no insight into what determines value in information, and he doesn't distinguish between different types of information. Most of Shenk's solutions seem to suggest that too much information, categorically, is the problem. While these suggestions may be worthwhile, we need to identify the reasons we're making these judgments.