The more you learn, the less you know

At least, in a way. "How can this be true!? How many magic mushrooms have you taken!? Does this mean being an idiot is the way forward!?" You may be asking one of these questions. So, let me expand on this theory...

When you are a child, and know very little about the world, you are like a spounge. Data is sucked into your mind and stored there like water, which your brain-tree uses to grow and "learn". Now, as your brain learns, you start developing a personality. As you develop this personality, your putty-like mind hardens up, retaining certain bias, opinions, and facts. In other words, you gain "knowledge". Now as you gain this knowledge, you start to see the world in a different way.

Think if you can, to when you were a child. Snow was a magical thing. However, people in work see snow and start sweating blood in the fear that they will get snowed in.

This is understandable of course. Fuck work. Fuck it even harder when you are trapped there. The "knowledge" you have of work is that it is generally boring, and not a good place to be trapped.

"But...how does this mean the more you learn, the less you know?" I'll tell you how.

Ask an adult their opinion on christmas. I guarantee at least 8/10 will say "Wallet rape". (Or something to that effect) Ask a child? They will tell you it is their FAVOURITE time of year. As an adult, it should still be an amazing time. But, because we grow to be taught that money is everything, we despise spending it. Despite the fact, ironically, the ONLY thing money is for, is well...spending.

The more knowledge you aquire pertaining to money, the more you want to keep it, and hoard it, even though a lot of the time you don't have anything you plan to spend it on. You just don't wanna be caught with you pants down.

Also, as you learn more factual information, you start to think inside the box more. You start using the factual information you learnt to process the new information you take in, where as when you were just a child, you just took it in without question. This is normal and a good thing of course. Otherwise, you would believe that children really were delivered by storks, and that could cause quite an awkward scene when your wife goes into labour.

But this very positive way of processing information is also our most limiting factor. It means we look at everything from a purely logical standpoint, and long for an explanation. It is why we fear the unknown. It is why we fear change. We don't like what we can't explain, or are unable to process in the usual fashion. It is why our opinions are set in stone and so hard to be swayed by others. It is why we argue our opinions even when, at times, we know deep down we are in the wrong. It is the source of pride, of stubborness. Knowledge begets ignorance, because we don't want to believe, we want to know.

There are countless pieces of evidence to show that not only do extra-terrestrials exist, but that they have been to this planet in some way. Now before you throw tin-foil hats at me, check it out for yourself. There are hacked NASA videos and photos, COUNTLESS of them in fact, that show "something" that can't be explained. There are also videos and photos naturally released by NASA. People will accept these, but when some toothless hillbilly says "I saw them there martians on muh' crop fields, tryin' tah' probe muh' cows, so I called Delilah but they was gone when she got there with muh' rifle.." everyone will roll their eyes. But if they see the NASA footage they will be a lot more likely to pay attention.

Knowledge is what creates our bias, and stops us learning anything of worth. Morality, consideration, and compassion come second hand for most people, compared with logic and understanding.

Knowledge begets ignorance. Without knowledge, there is no ignorance.

And that is how, in a round-a-bout way, the more you learn, the less you know.