There is water everywhere, but there is not a drop of water to drink.

In the sea of a lot of irrelevant information, perception is superficial, and news is superficial, so that people's hearts are oriented but struggling.

Thoreau said that telegrams make related things irrelevant. This endless stream of information has little or no relationship with their audience, that is to say, there is no social and spiritual environment on which this information can exist.

Coleridge's famous poem "There is water everywhere, but there is not a drop of water to drink" may well represent this contextualized information environment: in the sea of information, no useful information can be found.

People in Maine and Texas can talk, but what they talk about is something they don't understand or care about at all.

Telegrams may have made this country a "community", but this community is strange because there are a group of strangers who know almost nothing about each other except the most superficial information.

Now that we really live in such a "community" (sometimes called "global village" now), you can know what information is without context by asking yourself this question: How many times did the morning radio or TV, or the morning newspaper provide you with information that needed to change your day plan, or made you decide to take an action that you were not prepared to take, or helped you to know more about the problems you needed to solve?

for most of us, the weather forecast is sometimes useful; For investors, news about the stock market may be useful; Maybe reports about crime will also affect us, especially if the crime happens to happen where you live or involves someone you know.

But most of the news in our life is useless. At most, it provides us with a little talk material, but it can't guide us to take useful actions.

this is the tradition of telegraph: by producing a lot of irrelevant information, it completely changes what we call "information-action ratio".

—— Entertainment to Death