23.5.09

Knowledge is Power, What It Means?

"Knowledge is power" is one of the most famous idioms scattered around the world. The sentence is possibly recognised into two aspects as follows.

1. Knowledge denotes leading and domination. Its backdrop signifies the dashing manner of one's resolution implicitly. The first word one speaks out leads the situation and direction amongst different relationship, pattern or other forms of environment. Knowledge also gains the advantage of discourse. It can be said into two sides, which is the power of discourse as indicated explicitly by Foucault, and knowledge gives you your own stance to contravene others discourse's domination. This is the aspect of outward influence.

2. Knowledge denotes choices. More choices make you not only confined to single angle to intercept into complex incidences. Choices is the power of controlling ways solving difficulties. One choice always dominate the way you are going on. If there are two or more choices to be chosen, such denote that each choice distributes the overwhelming power from one choice upon an individual. Other choices play the role of counteracting the domination of the choice monoploy. This is the aspect of self influence.

Because of the multi-angle function of knowledge, literates always behave calm and witty. A man with strong literacy can anticipate a few possible outcomes while ignorant people who know only one resolution or situation at the present, in which the dominated way also intrigues the latter one's emotional disposition. More ways and solutions make us known the worse steps or better future and we can choose the best one to perform in prevention of setback.

Knowledge let us be more rational and objective as possible as subjective man can. Knowledge is the information about the world and more information provide the clues for our reference to recognise the world as proximate as it is.

Knowledge, from inward to outward, gives us the power of control in social and cultural aspects, not only narrowed to subsistence level.

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