The Arrogance Of Knowledge

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.