“Of Making Many Books There Is No End” — Ecclesiastes 12:12 and the Tyranny of Endless Information By Sights and Sounds of Ndon-Eyo II, Etinan “Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” — Ecclesiastes 12:12 Thousands of years before smartphones, social media, artificial intelligence, and 24-hour news cycles, the writer of Ecclesiastes saw it coming. With startling clarity, Ecclesiastes 12:12 reads today less like ancient poetry and more like a diagnosis of modern life. We live in an age drowning in information but starving for wisdom. An Ancient Text, A Modern Crisis When the Teacher (Qoheleth) spoke of the endless making of books, he was addressing a world of scrolls, scribes, and scholars. Yet the insight transcends its era. Today, “books” have multiplied into tweets, posts, blogs, videos, podcasts, opinion pieces, leaked documents, conspiracy theories, AI-generated texts, and viral misinformation. The result? A...