Information addiction

I need to go cold turkey on my information addiction now. I have a life time of books to read – a few still on the way and I have no time to read them. As with any addiction – it culminates in absurdity. I have a queue of videos to watch and lots of music to listen to. I have to own up to my lust, addiction, and greed for knowledge and information. The Buddhists speak of this as leading to misery and disappointment. Lust and greed for anything are deadly sins in Christian tradition. This addiction likely explains why I sought out and get a buzz off of being a knowledge broker in the financial technology industry (aka financial technology management consulting). It feeds the head. The knowledge paradox as explained by Jiddu Krishnamurti is that all knowledge is provisional, most of it false, yet it is infinite in terms of human capacity to absorb, and it is this very same clutter of provisional and false knowledge that gets in the way of achieving any kind of wisdom. Instead of anchoring one’s self to masses of dead knowledge – one should be suspended and float in the uncertainty of existence.