Knowledge

With Knowledge Man May Judge Himself

I am going to use the rest of this blog to focus on that one quote.

What is knowledge? Is it a GPA, a degree perhaps? What is it that constitutes some form of information as knowledge?

Perhaps it is the amount of reverence we give it maybe we control what the term knowledge means by putting emphasis on things we deem important and declaring them knowledge.

On the other hand perhaps it is something we are given, a trait, a recipe, a value passed down from a figure we respect. I think the term knowledge is extremely subjective as many people generalize it too greatly. Knowledge my dear readers in an individual thing. It's not what people tell you it is, no, it is what you find to be important in your life. Some knowledge can only be gained by experience such as social knowledge and other such things. We cannot teach social norms only enforce them we give children that knowledge by enforcing good behaviors and punishing bad ones.

We control knowledge. Yes that is completely true I know it may seem strange but all the knowledge that whoever you are that may be reading this blog right now has been controlled, twisted and possibly even manipulated depending on where you live. Knowledge is universal but it is in no way the same. For instance, why is it that in America we stress so much importance on the Holocaust and World War II yet in countries who were aggressors, such as Germany, Japan, and Italy the subject is only briefly covered? Thats right my dear readers, we are being fed knowledge this is true but how can we be sure that what we are being taught is the truth is the truth? These are questions that I will let you ponder yourselves and see if you get anything from it, I know I have but looping back to the original quote: With Knowledge Man May Judge Himself. This quote strikes me at a very deep level because it says that we can judge ourselves when we have attained knowledge but when have we attained the proper knowledge to judge ourselves? Furthermore I am consistently lead back to the simple question of "What is Knowledge?" I would give you all a definition here but this is counter-productive to my point. When I looked for a definition I was given thousands upon thousands of online dictionaries trying to tell me what knowledge was but none could agree on a single definition. So what is knowledge, and what kind of knowledge must we attain in order to be able to judge ourselves?