Bailey Jennings

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A pseudo-context is a structure invented to give fragmented and irrelevant information a seeming use. But the use the pseudo-context provides is not action, or problem-solving, or change. It is the only use left for information with no genuine connection to our lives. And that, of course, is to amuse. The pseudo-context is the last refuge, so to say, of a culture overwhelmed by irrelevance, incoherence, and impotence.
Bailey Jennings
This speaks to the illusion of being 'informed' with troves of information that are only useful as a 'fun facts'
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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