The Dark Side Of Knowledge
I'm going to ask that you seriously consider the above subject. It is a subject that is rarely discussed openly, even though it deserved
to be well understood. Basically, the dark side of knowledge means, that as
people become more educated, and have an opportunity to utilize the knowledge
gained, the more likely it is that the knowledge gained will be utilized to
gain power to subjugate others. It is human nature (and all life) to do so. The
inherent nature to survive and dominate is encoded into Human, and all life's
DNA, and results in people's passion for power in order to dominate and
subjugate all others.
For
example, the advance of knowledge, codified by Charles Darwin in his 1859 tome,
The Origin Of Species, had a very attentive pupil. The attentive person was
one, Adolf Hitler. Evidence abounds that Hitler's blueprint for NAZI domination
of the world as the Master race (Mein Kamph) was based upon the knowledge of
Survival Of The Fittest, made available by the esteemed work of Charles Darwin.
The result being that untold millions of people were murdered, and unfathomable
amounts of Human treasure and property was destroyed, and all because a Man
used knowledge gained nefariously. Also consider Atom Bombs, Chemical and Biological
Agents, and Rockets, as being just a few more examples of the misuse of
knowledge.
Here are
two quotes from Mein Kamph that you will recognized as being utilized today by
today's Master Politicians and those lusting for power, to wit:
"The great masses of the people will
more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one."
"The broad masses of a population are
more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."
If
you are a student of history, you may not have recognized the infallible fact
that all people who have come to dominate other people throughout the history
of Mankind were also the most educated of their kind. And they enthusiastically
used their superior knowledge to kill and destroy everything in their path in
their headlong rush to dominate and subjugate their fellow man.
So
the question today is: Should we elect or support those who are the most
educated among us to positions of power, when evidence abounds that to do so is
inviting disaster? For a today's example, look at the two above Mein Kamph
quotations and decide if the current President has used the above knowledge in
a nefarious manner, because after all, our President is one of the most
educated of all the people on the Planet.
