Chapter 10 (The Work of Knowledge)
Kowledge is power, while truth is a form of accuracy. In the third order of order, the focus is mostly towards the truth, therefore only few who have to knowledge. For instance, Wikipedia provides information in an exaggerated way or sometimes incorrect, whereas The Britannicas give enough information without unnecessary additional things, even so they provide them at the bottom of every article without mingling them in the article itself. Knowledge is too broad and general, in order to narrow it down, we ought to rely on the media and all metadata that is available in the digital world then obtain the information based on the way it is interpreted. What they give to us is merely truth, not knowledge. By acquiring knowledge, we are capable of controlling things around the world and that is again, pure power. It is true that one individual can only be expert far as a book shelf in a libary, however by having many experts in one field, truths can be achieved through filtering out their thoughts based on consensus or percentage. Sometimes, miscellaneous things shall be left miscellaneous so that people have the choices of what to believe in, also it is allowing them to have access to getting the facts the if they are smart enough to figure out.
This is critical to me as a DTC student because often times, society just simply fall into what the media told or taught them. Some journals/articles publishers tend to take easy way out to jot down what needed to say in a simple manner, or even too much. Although critics are there to give out their inner opinions and thoughts on them, we still need to filter out their responses and simplify the big, overall idea of the topic then decide which are truths and facts. Highly trusted and well-renowned books or dictionaries are obviously the best media that provide the best metadata as well. They are the solutions we need to count on in purpose of getting the facts. But in the end, it is not the published articles or metadata that matter. It all comes down to us on how we decide to accept or reject the truths, while bring them back to knowledge; then we can be powerful individuals with powerful asset, that is knowledge.
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Again, a really well done post. You could've, however, done a bit more to address the blog prompt (summing up the whole book, not just Chapter 10). It's sort of here, but not explicit.
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