Education creates a knowledge base that can be anchored to
reality. But each of us can only hold so much knowledge, so that the rest of
our convictions move in the direction of whom we trust, and whom else we
perceive to have a knowledge base that is anchored to reality. Without
education, we are a malleable mass, ready to follow whoever has not only the
strongest convictions, but the most powerful means to manipulate and create a false reality. Education creates a stable base in a given discipline. The educated
can then trust those educated whose surface beliefs reach down to their most
unshakable convictions, informed by values that they can all agree on.
The more people become lazy and resign themselves with
relying on another knowledge source, the more that entire body of knowledge
becomes weakened and unmoored from reality itself, which dangerously exposes it
to hijacking from those who seek to manipulate the perception of reality.
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