Knowledge - The People's Growth of Power

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Knowledge is built from observing (reading, listening, watching), followed by learning (identifying the pieces), followed by understanding (putting the pieces together), followed by applying (giving it a go). In other words, it’s work.

 

The opposite of knowledge is ignorance. It’s simple to accomplish, don’t do any of the above. Ah but, it isn’t possible to have total ignorance (zero knowledge). Everyone knows something about something. Though no one can know everything about everything. The key is to not be ignorant about what you need to know.

 

There’s one more I prefer, stupid. It’s satisfying the desire to be ignorant about what you need to know.

 

We are hit from all directions, all the time with information. Most of it isn’t useful. Some of it is invaluable. The problem is each bit of information isn’t wrapped in a colored ribbon telling us which it is. Each of us has to figure it out about everything, all the time. The more information we let hit us, the more work we have to do to figure out what to do with it. Which to we use to add to knowledge? Which do we toss?

 

The Internet has made it possible for us to get information, all the time, from everyone, from everywhere. We weren’t designed for that. We were designed to handle what was around us, which didn’t include the entire planet, nor the entire nation, nor the entire state. We took in everything around us, and we could handle that. We still try to take in everything around us, and we can’t handle that because “around us” is now too big for that.

 

We’ve gone from knowing our small surroundings to listening to soundbites about our surroundings around the world. Knowledge is built from knowing the few necessary things, not from listening to mere soundbites of the many unnecessary things.

 

Knowledge allows us to separate the wheat from the chaff; the meaningful from the meaningless; the necessary from the unnecessary. It’s the filter that helps us avoid destructive panic caused by fears based on ignorance.

 

Knowledge builds the understanding of I can, I don’t need help. Ignorance builds the belief of I can’t, I need help. Knowledge leads us to the freedom we call home. Ignorance leads us to the cage we call home. Knowledge causes the wise use of the power of the people to control government. Ignorance causes the surrender of the power of the people to government, that will then use it to control the people.

 

Knowledge or ignorance is a choice of the people. Knowledge is how the people grow the power of the people forever. Ignorance is how the people surrender the power of the people forever.

 

Just a fellow American