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F. Information is an additional need, not core to life
Information significance reduces with a better life
Information is part of the thriving. More information, better statistics, and data help us to make better decisions. But because thriving is a function of the struggle for survival, the more population is getting easy food, the brain’s desire to thrive reduces.
The less and less interested brains get in knowledge and information, the less important becomes the information. Because lazy uninterested brains can not take decisions irrespective of the amount of knowledge they have. This is because our ability to take better decisions improves as we struggle with life. And when there is no struggle in life, no one can correlate theoretical knowledge with the practicalities of the implementation.
Not only the productivity per capita and productivity per calorie reduce with reduced struggle for life, but as reduced struggle for life reduces thriving, which reduce curiosity for knowledge, as knowledge is needed for us to surive in a tough situation;
Now, because the information age is based on the hypothesis that information and data make one powerful and life simpler, which is a big fat lie because the simpler one’s life gets, the least significant the information becomes.
You can see this example in every aspect of your life. The human brain is incapable of doing anything without a strong purpose. And when there is no purpose to information, other than appearing and feeling smart, the very information becomes meaningless.
For instance, you get brilliant information in this article, that we only have 11% hospitable land on the planet. You also learned that our population exploded from the industrial age of 1760. You also learned that our fertility rate is decreasing. You also learned that the decrease in fertility rate is due to a reduction in thriving, which is due to the easiness of life, which is due to machines, and therefore the more machines we introduce, the less useful the machines become.
You thought you learned something. But you merely consumed information. The question is how this information is beneficial for you to solve the problem of food, water, energy, and land. And if all of these are already available to you, then what you are going to do with this information? If you think deeply, you can not use the above block of information in any which way if you do not struggle for food, water, energy, and land.
However, if you recently lost your job or earning, due to constant unemployment today, then you can use the information to be happy about the situation of jobless because you know that now you can thrive better, and will learn more.
So you see, the same information is meaningful and can be converted into worthy knowledge when you are struggling, and then the same information becomes meaningless when you are not struggling in life.
Historical Evidence
If we go to Babylon in 1700 BCE, libraries, books, universities, medicine, law, great architecture, gardens, water supply, sewage, trade(multinational), hotels, road, education, hand tools, small machines, clubs, etc, we find everything that we have today, barring mobiles, gadgets.
So Babylonian people’s energy was invested in developing a barren land into a fertile Babylon through canals and technology.