How Much Is Too Much?
A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. Murphy’s Law
You and I are like the man with two watches, we should never be sure. Especially today, because with information overload, we probably have hundreds of “watches”. Information overload is also known as information glut. It is the difficulty in understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when one has too much information about that issue.
Now we not only have too much information, but also too much misinformation, alternative facts, fake truth, and an excess of political lies in what is called a Post-Truth World.We have transformed information into a form of garbage, Neil Postman. How much is too much?
The man with two watches, and the rest of us, can solve our unsureness dilemma by paying attention to only one “watch”. That’s what most of us do. That is what is happening in the political information overload explosion today. People are paying attention to one source of political information. Including me.
My advice to all of us is: Be aware and wary of what you know. This was one of my paradoxical principles of Creative Decision Making in 1991. Believing the information you have nowadays indeed is a problem. Decision making is arranging and rearranging information into a choice. There is always more information available that one can process. There is no such thing as “innocent” information and information today is not always “user friendly”; it is often misinformation, incomplete, biased, unreliable, irrelevant, subjective and never independent of values.
Therefore, collect a few more “watches” and get a diversity of information. Fact check your information with reliable sources. What you know partly determines what you believe and what you believe partly determines what you know, so check your beliefs. The goal of dealing with information glut is to avoid information anxiety. Keep looking; verify your knowledge. Be careful about what you think you know.
Some things are impossible to know and it is impossible to know these things. Murphy’s Law
Positive Uncertainty 
Just a lot too much
Gene
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What I do know for sure is: We must change the occupant in the White House. He is close to destroying this country—and actually beyond our own country.