Knowledge is Power or: How I Learned to Live in Blissful Ignorance

Knowledge is Power or: How I Learned to Live in Blissful Ignorance

Consider how much you know. How much knowledge you have acquired throughout your life from both schooling and living. Now consider how much total knowledge there is in the world. Really think about it, there is a lot of freakin' shit to know? There is medicine, religion, math, science, language, psychology, history, literature and on and on. Just knowing how many categories of things there are to know is a lot, then take into account the specific knowledge in each of these genres. Again, there is a lot freakin' shit to know.

So, what percentage of that would say that you know? 1%? 5%? 8%? And, keep in mind, we are being generous here even using a whole number. Are you bold enough to venture higher? Now, think about what the average person knows, the Joe the fucking Plumbers that know their trade and little else outside of that.

For the sake of my blogument I would say that even the smartest person in the world would know only around 5% of everything there is to know.

Now, think of a young child you know around the age of 5. How much does that child know, especially in relation to you? Would it even be 1% of what you know? This is probably why children are so easy to fool. Why you can "pull their nose off" or why they so wholeheartedly believe in magic. I think it is part of the whole ignorance is bliss thing and I think, by extension, I just established that we're all living at some certain level of blissful ignorance.

Do you still think you can't be fooled? Not only fooled but easily fooled if a group of 10%-ers, who now collectively know a considerable amount more, really wanted to get something by you.

Would you then agree that in this scenario you, we, are the children?

But who is the adult?

Who is the one that can pull off your nose any time and any way that they want?

Reverend Martian