[Crowbob]

The irony here is that most of all those billions and billions of written words are worthless because most of them are simply not relevant to anything.

Interesting to somebody maybe but probably useless with regard to improving the human condition. Such things as phrenology, astrology and alchemy come to mind. The percentage of exoteric knowledge contained in all those tomes seems to me to be so small that reading it (or somehow otherwise absorbing it) would be a waste of time, literally.