K(no)wledge



I'm obsessed with people. Not a particular person, just people in general. I love finding out the way we work and what we do and why we do it. But we live in a world where knowing too little isn't good, and knowing too much will completely fuck you up. It's quite the Faustian complex. So what do we do? Marlowe is rolling over in his grave laughing hysterically at this question, as if you're familiar with the play Faustus, he didn't have the answer either. And by the way I just stared at this blinking cursor for 10 minutes, I don't have anything to offer as a suggestion. I don't know how to balance knowledge. Yeah, "knowledge is power" and all that other bullshit NBC's public service announcements feed us, but knowledge is scary. If you know too little, you'll either be naively happy (and everyone will bitterly despise you) or, you will just not know enough, plain and simple. But what is too little, or too much, and really, what is enough?