I don’t know. Information used to be curated to some extent. Professionals did in depth research and separated wheat from chaff. In this age of “do your own research” the amount of garbage to sort through seems deeper and deeper.
This is a bit of a rabbit hole, but what the hay...
We base every decision we make on information. There are two kinds of information:
1. Our direct sensory perception / our direct experience. This is what we know.
2. information relayed from other sources. This is what we believe.
Before the broadband era, gathering information and then disseminating it was expensive. That created a culture of professionals to curate the information for the sake of social and economic efficiency. But there was far less information to curate and there was more time to do it because the information rates were way, way slower. There was also a deep collective faith in the legitimacy of the democratic principles of participatory governance, and open access to sound information is the bedrock of such systems. Information was sacred.
Now information is cheap to generate and transmit. Almost anyone can disseminate information globally and instantaneously. Unfiltered information, both good or bad, can go "viral" at any time. Verification of real vs. manufactured information cannot be done at a rate (if at all) that matches the rate of flow of the information. This is chaos.
And there is too much information, even good information, even important information, for any person to assimilate. Too much even for an institution to have a practical handle on it. Way too much, way too fast. The current way to handle the deluge is to stick-it into computer models and get a statistical summary of it, but this lacks human judgment and wisdom. It is amoral. The current religion of Scientism places faith in the models because they are "unbiased."
The interface of statistical algorithmic based decisions with a society of human beings results in chaotic interfaces. Enormous technological based bureaucracies are in fact in-human (and they feel in-human). The social breakdowns we are seeing is this dynamic in action. The cause and effect sequence is counter-intuitive: it is the volume and speed of information that has resulted in turbulent information flow which is the root cause of social chaos. It is a force beyond the capacity of human wisdom. Globalists are jazzed anyway because they never had faith in human wisdom to begin with. Those who value self-determination are freaking in the oncoming tidal wave of totalitarianism.
