Sunday, April 26, 2020

Knowledge and Human Relationships

The Podcast can be found here: Knowledge and Human Relationships

It is through the initial investigation of knowledge as a resource, as the primary resource that led us to eventually know and appreciate that everything is in a relationship. A principle of reality that comes before all principles because all other principles merely describe the relationships.

Whatever principle one studies, they are looking at or investigating, asking questions about, looking for the answers for the reason, the answer and the question are about relationships. Be it gravity, the flu, how to shoot straight, you can only kill somebody if you have a relationship with them, even if you use a remote and they are 3 light years away. What ever it is one is looking into, criminology, the drums or the dance, one is dealing with relationships.

As everything is in a relationship, this is the principle that explains all other principles, just as knowledge is the primary resource that gives all other resources the ability to be resources. To be more scientific in terms of language, knowledge is the primary resource as it allows one who possesses it to utilize other information as a resource. Never forgetting that everything is information because everything will inform you about what it is. Not only that all information is made up of the same stuff and has the same basic characteristics, that everything is in a relationship being the most basic characteristic that everything shares. Knowledge allows us to identify other stuff, that is made up of the same stuff as us to be a resource, and knowledge is the only tool that can allow us to do this.

It is impossible to survive without knowing how to do things. It has always been the age of knowledge. To look at it otherwise and believe the age of knowledge did not begin with the first human being, then one can never extrapolate from that false premise, false principle of knowledge that everything is in a relationship. We only know that everything is in a relationship because we accepted that knowledge was the primary resource of the first human being to survive, the knowledge did not start 100 years ago, 1000 years ago, or even 50 000 years ago, it began with the first human being.

One should not call something they do not fully comprehend what it means by naming that thing as such given the precedence set by words for thousands of years. In every language there is a straightforward translation of the word knowledge, it is one of the oldest concepts of all humans that exists. You can not then abuse the word knowledge for sounding mighty knowledgeable, don’t lay politics with an ancient concept like knowledge that was essential as humans began their journey.

What they called knowledge economy, given the history of the concept of knowledge that has been with every culture,  they should for accuracy of language called it creative economy, but definitely not knowledge economy, it showed a lack of understanding what knowledge truly is. Meaning for centuries people did not use their minds until the invention of a computer, an insult to the concept of knowledge.

When not trying to be too fancy around the word knowledge and take knowledge for what it is, something you know, as simple as that. Humans have always known this fact that is why we have the never-ending politicization of knowledge. Thus they might claim that the knowledge age began with the computer, humans who built the pyramids, built Rome, built ancient China, built those remnants we see of 200 000 year old civilizations have always known knowledge can be politicized as it is the primary resource, a human merely needs to claim to be the source of knowledge, the source of the primary resource and first claim to food is guaranteed. Everything is in a relationship, all relationships lead to a loss of freedom because of the energy needed to maintain them. It is important not to forget that all relationships are random.

Knowledge like everything else is about relationships, the type of relationships one has will determine the type of knowledge they will acquire and use.  One has a relationship in a certain location, in that location it is where they have lost their freedom as they use energy to maintain relationship or relationships in that location. This means that a person can only be in one location. One cannot physically be in two or more places at once.

One is in one location at any given time and is always in a relationship with that location. At the very least one is in a relationship with the ground they are standing on and the air that they are breathing. The location one is in will determine the relationship that one will have with knowledge. How one views knowledge, uses knowledge, access to knowledge and cultural expectations around knowledge.

Access to knowledge refers to the ease of referencing something, checking up on it, so that one can know it better or remind themselves of it. That knowledge can come about from experience or orally, telling one’s child don’t touch that electrical plug, absolute danger, the reason why so many children are not electrocuted is because the parent emphasizes absolute danger, from just the voice with no spanking, you will die my child.

In todays world most knowledge is transmitted in code, writing is a code, reading is being able to understand the code, the information is transmitted by reading. A code that can be stored means that less knowledge needs to be stored to memory to be accessed. To access this knowledge, one needs to crack the code, children are taught early to crack the code by learning their A, B, C’s. When we fully break down these codes and understand even those codes that where not successful, we will truly understand how humans create codes. The code needs to be simple.

Access to knowledge obviously includes access to a teacher. It is a teacher who commits one’s time in transmitting knowledge, and that is how they get their food, shelter and clothing. If teachers get paid to give knowledge it means those who are being taught have somebody paying the bill.

As knowledge comes in a code and one must learn the code, one needs a teacher. One can tell a lot about society by who has access to this code, who can read and write. You will find groupings in society who cannot read and write very well, the question is why them? What do they have in common? What is their relationship with government? It cannot be a very good one. You go to countries and one will find for religious reasons for example females are not allowed access to the code. It is not a disdain for knowledge, even if it was, why would they disdain knowledge when knowledge allows one to better themselves. What in society would force them to have a disdain for knowledge? What in society is encouraging them or discouraging them? At whose expense are they being discouraged and encouraged for? What happened in that location such things are as they are between these subgroups of that society? Obviously answers always surprise us if we investigate. The answers need an approach with evidence, because in the depth of poverty somewhere today somebody in this world is struggling for knowledge, struggling to get the code and utilize the code to get knowledge hopefully it will end.

By asking these questions one will likely get a true picture of how that society truly functions, who has first claim to food, shelter and clothing. It will tell who values knowledge; which societies give back to each other and that question will tell you about the relationships these sub groups have internally because if there is no respect for knowledge in a sub group, they must share some of the blame, why is knowledge disrespected, how can the worst triumph over the best no matter the circumstances, why reject the chance to get the code and apply the code, to reject reading and writing, a negligence of duty by that sub group.

Knowledge has always been the primary resource of a human being, that is why throughout history sectors of humanity have claimed to be the source of that knowledge the primary resource for all humanity. This has happened in most cultures throughout history. Claiming to be the source of knowledge others must accord that sector of society, or humanity a special place, first to food, shelter, and clothing. To maintain this position culturally trauma must be the primary thus final weapon. Having said this, knowledge can then not be seen to come from other sectors of society because they themselves know they are merely playing a trick, robbing past, present and future. Sad, but that is exactly what that means, they see other people’s children as servants of their children. A culture that is afraid of randomness. They are not the only ones afraid of randomness, nobody wants to do what they don’t want to do, but they must eat. English Kings in the past didn’t even bother wipe their bums, they had somebody do it. Placed in power by God. It’s about access to food, shelter and clothing at the end of the day, not knowledge as such. But knowledge plays a very important role in getting that food, shelter and clothing.

Culture, the norms of society affect how a society views knowledge and its uses. At this moment second decade of the 21st century, it is foolishness to play down the value of the code and it’s uses, the code being the ability to read and write even if a picture tells a thousand words. A picture is another method of knowing things, experiments are easier to explain with pictures, in a way pictures takes knowledge of any discipline to the people where it belongs, as easy as possible.

Foolishness is asking for standards to be dropped because of your lack of respect of knowledge, knowledge is supposed to be built on knowledge, it is built on past knowledge, to ask for standards to be reduced means a mind that is already giving up on knowledge, not understanding its about the discipline in their location towards knowledge, the respect that society gives to knowledge, understanding that knowledge is the primary resource, a persons mind is their primary resource, given that oxygen is for free.

To be alive is to first have access to food, shelter and clothing. It is best to keep things at the very basics; it makes it easier to understand whatever is built upon the basics. It is about food on the table. The quality of that food, shelter and clothing showing what relationships one has in that location.

Culture and the organization of society. Who can get this knowledge, initially it is one who has access to a teacher, having access to a teacher means the knowledge can be refined, or one will learn how to refine the knowledge, learning ever greater and more specialized forms of categorization of knowledge, of information, catering for the diversity of society.

All progress is from knowledge, from observing our surroundings. That knowledge can come from inside or outside the society, what matters is that the principle is true or false. All progress be it in medicine, chemistry, ancient history, how to organize an entrepreneurial enterprise, how to run a power generating enterprise, how to farm, how to pour concrete, how to attack in battle, how to defend under siege and how to accept the results of your observations.

To accept the principles that underline the reality that progress is about knowledge, and the advancement of the society in it survival is about progress that is about knowledge. Growth in the knowledge base means accepting the results. You can not lose a war and go around saying you won it when your people are dead and enslaved. This is not dramatic; it is the same as saying an experiment yielded the desired results in physics when everybody can see that it did not. You must accept the results of the observation for the knowledge base to grow.

Times have been nothing but cultural expectations, these are usually self serving as society will be organized to fulfill these cultural expectations. Such a group has been assigned a cultural role, once these cultural expectations are in place, the idea that knowledge is random is removed. In reality if results go against cultural expectations that culture in an attempt to survive it’s contradictions with reality they will attempt to squish that randomness because culturally they have assigned themselves as the enlightened ones.

Nobody can tell you what it is to be enlightened, somebody calls themselves enlightened, or a teacher of those arts will say you are enlightened. Then these same teachers will say there is always more to learn, always more to know. If there is always more to know, it is true you are always at the beginning. If one is always at the beginning how then technically speaking does one become enlightened when enlightened means you see reality as a whole. But we see enlightened people refusing the results and thus squish the results. Those who call themselves enlightened always of course assign themselves roles that give to themselves, households, and offspring the best food, shelter and clothing, thus culturally they set themselves in uncompetitive positions, genetically modified to receive more of a crucial talent like the ability to merely download knowledge, beyond other human beings who must study, when these are breached the entire people who depend on this notion that the role they have given themselves is out of randomness, it is unique, to protect this lie they must all, all, because they all depend on this fallacy for better choice of food, shelter and clothing than otherwise, all must aide in hiding random reality that is outside the cultural norms that they are dispossessed to knowledge more than other in society, why not all human beings.

All humans if being honest to themselves should admit some degree of hypocrisy in their constitution. Hypocrisy can be thought as the result of two phenomena, laziness being the greater of the two phenomena. The other phenomenon being genuine insincerity. Even if being insincere, there is always an element of laziness that is why laziness is the greater of the two phenomena. The biggest hypocrites obviously mix great insincerity with laziness.

Why should laziness be considered a part of hypocrisy. The reason is that all hypocrisy has at its roots somebody not living up to the example they claim to be. One could not be bothered to live up to what they claim is a standard, they usually could if they paid attention and wanted to, they couldn’t because they found it too difficult even if looking like nothing. To tell a child to tidy up when you are a slob, sure it’s helping the kid but there is not a good example in front of them. It’s laziness.

Laziness leads to two things that come quickly to mind. One can invent something to make the work easier, that is a good thing. It also leads to one being a con artist, a bad thing. It is the bad laziness that leads to hypocrisy.  It all comes down to food on the table, true all hypocrisy is hypocrisy but now we talk of hypocrisy mixed with intentional insincerity for the purpose of food, clothing, and shelter.

When a group calls themselves enlightened, through every medium available to them, mediums they have to control, they have to control them otherwise such a message could never be sent. Better still why not genetically engineered to be enlightened. Why then would they need to make laws and customs to protect themselves, I am sorry, but if a government can give aid to some or not to others it means society has been conditioned to accept that as natural. But why then do these enlightened ones, sometimes genetically inclined to be enlightened, science, sometimes a right from the skies, religion, every tool is used given the times, others talk of survival of fittest, Darwin, science, any tool is used, just to condition society to culturally must have these skills, thus right to food, shelter and clothing before others forever and ever, sometimes religion, sometimes science.

Why then would works not from them be stolen or hidden if they are the masters of knowledge, they are lazy and insincere, they claim only they can get food in such and such a way because of either Religion, science, they know they are telling lies, that is why they have to steal and hide peoples works who do not fit their criteria but fit the reality of randomness. If they steal the works of others, it is because they could not accept the results of a random process, but many will call themselves scientists. Too them it is how is this possible against all the safeguards we have created to protect our hypocrisy because we are too lazy to allow it to be a random process, it means we will really have to be good instead of just stopping others.

Accepting that knowledge is a random process means accepting the results even if they go against your desired expectations, if they go against your expectations accept your place in that area of knowledge. They must look at what is society, if people are more stupid than you, how is it ever possible to be the same society, that would be just a convenient lie, having no proof of their inferiority you have to be a hypocrite who is insincere and lazy to get that food, shelter and clothing. Giving to your children what does not belong to them, thoughts that never originated with you but claimed by you through protecting mysticism you created around yourself. A hypocrite of the first order.

Knowledge is about relationships, all relationships are random, as humans have knowledge as their primary resource, have a right to use their knowledge as inferior as it might be to make a living understanding that where there is justice facts speaks for themselves and works are not stolen as the thief should accept the reality, not good enough instead of stealing food, shelter and clothing from one who did better for themselves.

Beginning of cooling things down on this planet is to accept that knowledge is random, just about relationships, don’t fudge it, you are merely insulting people you don’t identify with, lessor humans, refusing reality that a mind is just a mind influenced by location, and location is always random even if you sit on the rock your ancestors set on 10 000 years ago.

Knowledge is the primary resource for all human beings, if there is indeed such a thing as society, society would best benefit if members of the society just accepted facts for facts, if they can not, it is not a society except at political rallies because some societies have been cultural rights to have access to knowledge using mysticism of religion and science. Other societies that are ruled, as their facts are not facts unless it comes from a ruling class, it can never be one society where some humans are superior than others, somebody has been set up to be exploited so that others get their share of food, shelter and clothing.

Bhekuzulu Khumalo


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