Overfishing Knowledge

Overfishing Knowledge
Knowledge is said to be power. This may be true to a certain extent but do you really want to know when you die? Our greed for knowledge is presupposed by our human misery but anything overfished becomes empty. Mr. Know All loses his meaning and importance the day his knowledge goals are attained. Omniscience cannot even be a divine quality because this would devoid God of meaning. Achieving your aims takes away the challenge, enthusiasm and romance. Remember Great Gatsby was driven by romance but lost it when he was able to achieve it. Of course human beings are far from being knowledgeable. Thanks God nobody is perfect or as Germans put it: everybody needs water for cooking.

Disciplines fragment infinitely and indefinitely into sub-discipline and sub-discipline through specialization. New registers emerge which acquire new identities. Inter-disciplinaries or trans-disciplinaries again question those very identities. Remember even most popular identities are created by marketing. Those who find a market receive an identity which swelters the way it comes. In addition new registers create new borders and communities and make many a language only capable of everyday communication. Even now communication in science can primarily be done in English.

Furthermore, anything which is accomplished is doomed to destruction and is as ephemeral as life is. Restrictions put on us humans give back meaning to life. Being imprisoned physically, we are saved from the blind alley of knowledge. To err is human but not to err is being lost forever. Knowledge is indeed a dead end, after all sans meaning, sans truth.

Jamshid
Breen, 5 July 2009

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