How does information impact us?
How has that changed?
It seems to me that information, in the end, has to be digestible; otherwise, it is mostly simply discarded. Perhaps there was a time when digestion (of information) was something that the course of things allowed to be done slowly — like working with your hands, you learned something in time, through practice. The information was repeatable and also divergent and you learned the difference and when it was happening, in part, because the pace allowed you to digest it.
Now, it seems, if it can't hold our attention, information is rather quickly discarded. On to the next data-point please. While this shift has been under way for a while now, social media has really accelerated it. "I don't have time to read this whole thing..." we might hear someone thinking. I've thought that.
But truth is a bit more nuanced and not easily reducible to sound-bites — at least when its substance is more seriously engaged.
I feel aware that what I post here on Saturday Mornings (for whoever the audience may be) needs to be accessible or it won't have opportunity for digestion (and, therefore, impact). I feel conscious of what might be too long...or too short. If people won't eat it, no possibility for digestion occurs.
Like it or not, I am playing in the information game. As always, some information gets through; what, why, and perhaps more importantly how is the key to digestion (perhaps, it always has been).
And, this may be why we seem to have more indigestion these days — information isn't impacting us in the same way and, as a result, truth isn't either.
