[absynth]

You watched all that content. Did you take action on it? What did you make or do as a result?

[tclancy]

Is that to be the end result of the pursuit of knowledge, creating something? There is the true dumbing down, insisting on a vague kind of productivity as the point of life.

[absynth]

Why would doing something or taking action be dumbing down?

You are bristling with something like anger but it has nothing to do with what I wrote.

I'm off to go hiking. There are thousands of stars out there.

[simonh]

What will you make or do as a result of going hiking and looking at stars?

[AIorNot]

eh, sometimes its just passive consumption, I'm not claiming it makes me a better person..but it rattles around in my head and latter bubbles up as creative solutions I think.. I would be an information junkie in whatever world I was in regardless..