| Education and Knowledge
What all of the discussion in the posts exposes is how poorly we, as a society, have been educated. All of us have taken physic at some time in high school and if we didn't we should of. Unfortunately we were doing all kinds of “experiments” and not learning it.
It could be likened to learning to read and write and not be taught what a verb, noun or adjective is. We all can read and write E=Mc2. Few of us know its meaning.
It has made us gullible to energy from nothing schemes etc. It is fun seeing people fall for such schemes and I apologise to anyone for laughing. However it is no different than the pea and shell game at the carnival.
This lack of knowing some basic fundamentals that should be considered as basic as reading, writing and math has and will continually lead us astray.
In the past leaders, priests, doctors, lawyers, etc. would guard their knowledge to stay in power. Doctors and priests used Latin, lawyers use Legalese or any type of “secret writing”.
Physicists use equations, scientists use math. The difference is they do no try to hide the knowledge. The language they use is “open source”.
The effect of our lack of knowledge causes us to either pressure our leaders or be lead astray by them. Because we are “dumb” we believe. We end up with bad policies.
Education and knowledge has freed us in the past from servitude to the landowners, the nobility and the Kings.
Now all that remains to be freed from is ignorance. That unfortunately takes energy and time (or work). |