Ya know. I think that it might take waaaayyyy too long to learn things. OR maybe I am just not good enough to learn the things.
No real other insight. I just think that it takes too long to learn things. Probably would be good if we made knowing what to learn more accessible.
After all, we can better distribute the tasks of learning on behalf of humanity if we increase the pool of people who know things and enable those people to let a large pool of people know how to go about knowing things. Ya know. Kinda a probability thing. Generally, if we increase the number of people in the pool that know things, odds are that it's more likely we will churn out a person that knows even more things.
I guess that's what our education was supposed to do, but we seem to always not actually want more people to know things. At least I have been told that at least in the West there was knowledge that was mostly restricted to certain classes of people. I imagine India's caste systems prevented knowledge from going to the pools of minds that may have been able to do something useful with knowledge.
But really what the heck are we doing?
We are getting better about it, but why are we restricting knowledge of good things? Even books are such that typically you would have to pay in order to obtain content that someone else happens to know. I know that we have to provide an incentive for others to want to share their knowledge, but really the people that know things should be better encouraged.
I guess all things being equal though. I probably doesn't matter so much. We will get there eventually. And then again, maybe we aren't meant to be doing this. For some reason, the general population (myself included) is more drawn to things like entertainment. After all, despite sometimes not being organized very well, resources are out there that encourage knowledge. Why then do I feel more compelled to watch a video with a story? Why would I feel the need to watch it again? What good is that? Enlighten me Sophocles. This has nothing to do with Dionysus, but I sit here watching the story play out instead of sitting here learning something noble.
-thursday