16th November 2025
Every once in a while, the internet throws up a gem like this one: “Informational obesity will kill you.”
Somewhere in the dark alleys of the internet, a man sits, scrolling. He has read 16 articles since breakfast. He knows why the economy is collapsing, what the stock market will do next, and the exact reason a celebrity was caught cheating. He is drowning in knowledge, and yet, if you ask him to explain any of it, he will pause, scratch his head, and say, “It’s complicated.”
This man is sick. Not in the way his doctor understands, but in the way an overfed brain stops working. He is a victim of informational obesity: a condition where a person consumes more knowledge than they can digest, ending up confused, anxious, and painfully misinformed.
The disease is common. We read news, we watch debates, we argue online and have an opinion on everything. We are certain that we are right.
But if you lock the people in a room and ask them to explain their certainty, they will fumble because they’re overloaded with all the information, but they haven’t actually absorbed or understood any of it, because their knowledge is second-hand and borrowed.
It is a thin layer of information wrapped around a void.
This is the greatest irony of the modern world.
More people know more things than ever before, and yet, real wisdom is dying. Thought is being replaced by reaction. Inquiry is being replaced by confidence.
People read, not to understand, but to win arguments.
They consume, not to grow, but to belong.
So what is the cure? It is not ignorance. Ignorance is the twin of blind knowledge. The cure is discipline.
The answer isn’t to ignore information altogether. That’s just as bad.
We need to be more selective about what we consume.
Read less, but understand more. Choose your knowledge the way you choose your food: carefully, deliberately.
Ask yourself: Does this information make me wiser, or does it only make me feel informed?
Because in the end, informational obesity is worse than physical obesity.
A fat body can still think, But a fat mind is just noise pretending to be thought.
Reclaim your intellectual autonomy, resist the urge to scroll endlessly, to argue reflexively, to consume mindlessly,
Avoid Informational obesity & stay blessed forever.