Ignorance is bondage, and there is enough to go around. We are flooded with information but starving for knowledge. Americans have an information fetish despite the fact that info is making no one smarter or a better human being. The more data we absorb, the dumber and meaner we get. The simple explanation is that the information glut allows no time for reflection.
Information is useless without time in which to think about what it means.
We know everything but understand nothing. We need to know truth, not just facts. More new information has been produced in the last thirty years than in the previous 5,000 years. Don't despise the kind of knowing that has stuffed your head with facts. You will be falling back on things you learned here for the rest of your life.