The Conflict Between Knowledge and Reason.
Part One: The Balance Between Acquiring Knowledge and
Applying it.
Ignore it at your peril and that of everyone else you have anything to do with.
Through the charts of history peering beyond the spangles and the achievement, good or ill, one sees patterns. Patterns and threads reflecting the stars through which the orbs
course; signs of the inevitable; of the electron and the flesh reacting to it's emergence
with more question than certainty, at the last in a state of denial loosing all by a wry set of
circumstance known only to us by our curt term "default".
Reason itself is a flutter down myriad pathways, while the individual intent on the
dictatorial acquisition of learned persons, wastes time of reason, as time it takes -- one wonders it that be the sole purpose of time -- forcing the brain to entertain
morsels of information to the exclusion of all else or ever that mind were given ample chance to make formations of learning more conducive to the very cosmos it ultimately inhabits.
And this is reason, or at the least an introduction to it: that a mind, albeit tempered with a little bit of acquired
knowledge to hasten it along it's way, be then set free to imbibe the turbid set of
stimuli that should direct it to a greater more profound operation and plain of action. Before the time is enden and the books of the individual be closed to the wanderings,
equipped only with that which was before it had reached it's end.
Set forever in finality as one who either participated or defaulted. And here knowledge
and reason are at odds, for what has the business of a weary finite world with that of a cosmos? Therefore entertain this argument: That
knowledge itself, but more chiefly the acquisition of it is the very enemy of reason if only in this, that it's acquisition, it's
boredom of wrote repetition, it's enticement for the brain consummate to remove all unused portions, becomes the antagonist sought after by all those desirous of making some reputation in the same miniscule
existence, leaving no avenue left open for the higher function of the mind: thought, reason, and higher capability.
The Conflict Between Knowledge and Reason, Part Two: Act Knowledge Mentus.
Logic, the Death of Civilization.
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