Fiend says--"The burden of the seeker is to discover the precious and genuine and worthwhile, and discern it from that which is counterfeit, flawed, noisome. He would like to do this without wasting too much of his time on things that he would later determine to be not worthwhile."

Well said. I am afraid that the great amount of information does lead to a very small anount of understanding. I fear that few people every experience what Carl Sagan spoke of "Understanding is a kind of ecstasy."