Information Overload Is an Invisibility Cloak

Too much news is the same as no news, and too much coverage is the same as no coverage
March 13, 2026

I just realized that information overload provides an invisibility cloak.

The more that is happening in the world, and the more significant those things are, the less time people will have to be outraged about any particular thing.

This is really bad because it will be possible to do extraordinarily heinous acts that will blow over within a couple of days because the next 750 heinous acts will have been done by then.

Basically, too much news is the same as no news. Too much coverage is the same as no coverage.

This is especially true when all of us are seeing separate news feeds because the way that outrage functions is getting everyone focused on the same thing at the same time.

And the fact that it's possible to fake any news story to include audio and video makes it even worse.

I wonder if we are entering an era of limited negative repercussions. But maybe I'm wrong and it's just this moment that we're living in.

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