The Practical Role of the Public Intelligence

Om wants to distinguish between a kind of practical role that, let's call this like trivial or incidental information. For instance, as you just described, play could play a role in mobs punishing someone or something. A lot of people always want to be making sure they're fighting "next week's war," he says. So the desire to know the news is not so much a desire to have an accurate understanding of where things stand but a desire to be 'influential'