Been a while since Basil indulged with such fustian comments. Nobody has come even remotely close to saying anything of substance. Kinda impressed y'all can write so many words with no meaning.
Knowledge is useless in today's world. Who needs knowledge when you have plastic surgery, boob jobs, Botox, facelifts, liposuction, and yoga to make you look gorgeous and appealing to the opposite sex. Face it we think about sex every 30 seconds on average do the world isn't driven by knowledge but rather the motivation for procreation.
@Flexography: Probably because of my peculiar mental cocktail of WHAWT IS GOING ON IN MY HEADd but whenever I learn something, everything in the world feels more hopeless. Like, how this one beetle had to take three stabs through the abdomen and run around bleeding out for half an hour before it died. I was like YO IF THEY DECIDE TO KILL ME LIKE THIS ONE WAS TRYING TO EVERYTHING WILL SUCK
[quote=Flexography]Thanks There's a lot of stuff there to cover, but I guess one can (arguably) never suffer from learning stuff[/quote]
Yes, I think it was truly a crime to humanity to expect anyone to learn all that in one semester with other classes on the go as well. Of course I failed miserably in it and had to take an extension to get a passing grade... But maybe philosophy majors had an easier time with the course. (I take almost a full day to read and understand one essay while others probably read the same essay within a couple of hours)
[quote=Flexography]Probably a bit above me right now, but I'll hit you up in a couple years[/quote]
Keep at it. You seem to have a lot of talent, probably more than me. I'm sure you will make it there.
In the mean time it doesn't hurt to begin some preliminary discussions.
My advanced literary and criticism class gave me a lot of insight into the workings of power/power relations. Since it wasn't my major I had some serious troubles finishing that course! I'm not sure what you are studying but you seem to have an interest in philosophy, if you begin now by at least understanding the general concepts you will be miles ahead of everyone you are studying with. Deconstruction theory, post colonialism, post modern, and alter modern theory, feminist theory and gender study, historicism, semiotics, psychology and psychoanalysis are some of the topics we had to cover in that course and give very good insights into the inner workings of power and society. You can also begin by understanding epistemology.
knowlege has always associated with power That's why Jesus did not tell his creations his name. Knowing , means owning, owning means taking power. Knowing his name would make him powerless.
[quote=Flexography]I'll co-author a paper with you on it.[/quote]
Lol sure. This is really interesting for me, I'd love to tackle something like this. I will do my Masters soon but my passion lies in a different field. I can however help you with research and discuss about this with you.
[quote=Flexography]We sort of have to discuss what knowledge most fundamentally is, and what power most fundamentally is, before we can talk about whether or not knowledge is power.[/quote]
Maybe that is a good place to start, but then we have to bring in the subject of specific contexts and locales to tie everything we know about knowledge and power into the real world. GL maybe someone will be inspired to work towards a PHD dissertation with this thread.
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I believe knowledge gained is more freedom gained.
Been a while since Basil indulged with such fustian comments. Nobody has come even remotely close to saying anything of substance. Kinda impressed y'all can write so many words with no meaning.
Yes. Knowledge = Power, in our days. But no more at future, because of the advanced technology.
Knowledge is useless in today's world. Who needs knowledge when you have plastic surgery, boob jobs, Botox, facelifts, liposuction, and yoga to make you look gorgeous and appealing to the opposite sex. Face it we think about sex every 30 seconds on average do the world isn't driven by knowledge but rather the motivation for procreation.
Of course not. You need to have a stupid piece of paper that says you graduated college with a degree.
@Flexography: what the heck do you even do with your knowledge though, get beaten down by oppressive legal netting?
@Flexography: Probably because of my peculiar mental cocktail of WHAWT IS GOING ON IN MY HEADd but whenever I learn something, everything in the world feels more hopeless. Like, how this one beetle had to take three stabs through the abdomen and run around bleeding out for half an hour before it died. I was like YO IF THEY DECIDE TO KILL ME LIKE THIS ONE WAS TRYING TO EVERYTHING WILL SUCK
knowledge more like "the ability to realize that you need to go kill yourself right now"
i'm just not smart enough to kill myself atm
legit, the more I learn the more I want to die
[quote=Flexography]Thanks
There's a lot of stuff there to cover, but I guess one can (arguably) never suffer from learning stuff[/quote]
Yes, I think it was truly a crime to humanity to expect anyone to learn all that in one semester with other classes on the go as well. Of course I failed miserably in it and had to take an extension to get a passing grade... But maybe philosophy majors had an easier time with the course. (I take almost a full day to read and understand one essay while others probably read the same essay within a couple of hours)
no
but luck is
I always thought it was money....
[quote=Flexography]Probably a bit above me right now, but I'll hit you up in a couple years[/quote]
Keep at it. You seem to have a lot of talent, probably more than me. I'm sure you will make it there.
In the mean time it doesn't hurt to begin some preliminary discussions.
My advanced literary and criticism class gave me a lot of insight into the workings of power/power relations. Since it wasn't my major I had some serious troubles finishing that course! I'm not sure what you are studying but you seem to have an interest in philosophy, if you begin now by at least understanding the general concepts you will be miles ahead of everyone you are studying with. Deconstruction theory, post colonialism, post modern, and alter modern theory, feminist theory and gender study, historicism, semiotics, psychology and psychoanalysis are some of the topics we had to cover in that course and give very good insights into the inner workings of power and society. You can also begin by understanding epistemology.
Well according to Socrates, knowledge is virtuous.
[quote=acuppa]Well it's definitely powerful when enough people have it. Just look at Twitter and its role in the Arab Spring.[/quote]
lel I'm sure glad that we can now look at the Middle East as a glowing example of budding Democracy.
Well it's definitely powerful when enough people have it. Just look at Twitter and its role in the Arab Spring.
knowlege has always associated with power
That's why Jesus did not tell his creations his name. Knowing , means owning, owning means taking power. Knowing his name would make him powerless.
[quote=Flexography]I'll co-author a paper with you on it.[/quote]
Lol sure. This is really interesting for me, I'd love to tackle something like this. I will do my Masters soon but my passion lies in a different field. I can however help you with research and discuss about this with you.
[quote=Flexography]We sort of have to discuss what knowledge most fundamentally is, and what power most fundamentally is, before we can talk about whether or not knowledge is power.[/quote]
Maybe that is a good place to start, but then we have to bring in the subject of specific contexts and locales to tie everything we know about knowledge and power into the real world. GL maybe someone will be inspired to work towards a PHD dissertation with this thread.
That's like, a really stupid ass question.