Consider the following comments on information.
We are drowning in information and starving for the judgement to use it.
A fact without a frame is just noise wearing the costume of knowledge.
The powerful no longer hide the truth, they bury it under a thousand competing ones.
To know everything about a thing is not the same as to understand it.
What we call being informed is too often just being entertained by the serious.
Write a piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your argument and the way you express it.
A way into this prompt
Argue that the central problem of our age is not a scarcity of information but a scarcity of the judgement needed to weigh it, and that abundance has quietly become a new form of poverty. Begin by acknowledging the gain, that more is known and more is shared than at any point in history, which has exposed lies that once stayed hidden. Then press the contradiction: a flood of facts does not produce understanding, because understanding requires the slow work of context, comparison and doubt that volume actively erodes. A useful third move distinguishes information, which can be copied endlessly, from wisdom, which must be earned and cannot be downloaded. Caution: resist the cynical conclusion that more information is therefore bad, since the answer to confusion is rarely ignorance, but better habits of attention.