Don't Bank On It

October, 1984

The overinformationalization of America must stop. So much is being written by so many for so few that the average reader no longer has either the time or the energy to sort through vast oyster beds of bullshit for rare pearls of wisdom. And I use that incredible metaphor only to illustrate the problem.There's a way out of this information glut, and it derives from the solution to another American glut--the result of the national inclination to produce too much food.Recent history: By the Fiftie...