Perhaps it's just a clever scheme to make people read more posts, making them sequentially related.
Muahaha.
Muahaha.
Anyway.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
It's something that I've been realizing on occasions here in univeristy...you spend so much of your life learning things like how to count in Binary and synonyms for the word "loquacious" and the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, but secretly every class teaches me that there's really quite a lot out there yet to be explored, be it by me or by anyone else. There's a lot that I don't know, and there's also a lot that nobody knows.
I mean, just think of all the knowledge that is contained in one library. Especially if you're at a university with a massive library. There is a lot of information in there. So much that we can't even store it all--we have to use online archives for much of it.
Now think of all the things that aren't in books or on the internet. If you're skeptical, go ahead and read a wikipedia article or a book (superfast) and when you're done, tell me whether you had more questions answered, or more questions arise that you never knew you had.
If you're me, you read an article on the pinky finger as a vestigial structure, and now you're wondering just how important pinky fingers actually are...how often are they used now? What made them so useful long ago before we had keyboards and video games to make our fingers so dexterous? Could all those menial tasks of the past like plowing and spinning wool and cobbling and coopering and smithing really have required the use of a pinky finger?
When in reality...nobody ever thinks about fingers that much, until they learn about them.
See how abnormal knowledge makes us?
Anyway.
What's the point of it all? All this endeavor to learn things and become an expert in some field and to research more and more to find out new things, when really all of our experimentation and learning is only to find out new questions.
Truly, the more educated we are, the more we realize just how ignorant we are.
I mean, just think of all the knowledge that is contained in one library. Especially if you're at a university with a massive library. There is a lot of information in there. So much that we can't even store it all--we have to use online archives for much of it.
Now think of all the things that aren't in books or on the internet. If you're skeptical, go ahead and read a wikipedia article or a book (superfast) and when you're done, tell me whether you had more questions answered, or more questions arise that you never knew you had.
If you're me, you read an article on the pinky finger as a vestigial structure, and now you're wondering just how important pinky fingers actually are...how often are they used now? What made them so useful long ago before we had keyboards and video games to make our fingers so dexterous? Could all those menial tasks of the past like plowing and spinning wool and cobbling and coopering and smithing really have required the use of a pinky finger?
When in reality...nobody ever thinks about fingers that much, until they learn about them.
See how abnormal knowledge makes us?
Anyway.
What's the point of it all? All this endeavor to learn things and become an expert in some field and to research more and more to find out new things, when really all of our experimentation and learning is only to find out new questions.
Truly, the more educated we are, the more we realize just how ignorant we are.
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