It's honestly depressing how many of the comments seem to completely miss the point of the post and respond with something along the lines of "there is too little signal and too much noise in stuff".
The entire point of the article is that you're not a humanoid robot whose entire purpose is to process signals for some utilitarian purpose in the borg collective, it's that you're a human being who engages with culture to develop your own mind.
If you're being spoonfed information at the highest rate you can handle, when do you actively engage with what is happening in front of you? The reason why a priest in a mass is giving you ample silence and not the "tldr" version of the sermon is because that silence is productive, it's when you use the active part of your mind, rather than just absorbing information like a machine.
The fact that people can't even comprehend this any more and just want things to be fed to them, completely passive recipients, not engaged in any contemplation, which requires there to be "little signal" at times so there's space is what the author is getting at.
The entire point of the article is that you're not a humanoid robot whose entire purpose is to process signals for some utilitarian purpose in the borg collective, it's that you're a human being who engages with culture to develop your own mind.
If you're being spoonfed information at the highest rate you can handle, when do you actively engage with what is happening in front of you? The reason why a priest in a mass is giving you ample silence and not the "tldr" version of the sermon is because that silence is productive, it's when you use the active part of your mind, rather than just absorbing information like a machine.
The fact that people can't even comprehend this any more and just want things to be fed to them, completely passive recipients, not engaged in any contemplation, which requires there to be "little signal" at times so there's space is what the author is getting at.