Chrissy Jaeger - personal reflection

Knowledge as Labyrinth

I thought the video we watched was really intriguing. Where knowledge was associated with a Labyrinth. This implies that knowledge leads to other knowledge and you can get lost within it. Also that knowledge can be dangerous and needs to be kept secret.
The fact that knowledge leads to other knowledge seems logical- but what’s interesting about this fact is that learning one thing will bring up a question to another and branch off that one. Like a tree, if you start at the trunk as you go up you have many options to choose as to where you go next.
You can absolutely get lost in it. Like we talked about in class if you bring with a question and as you follow all the other branches you eventually forget your original question. Not to mention as a written society there is a lot less emphasis on memorization so as you move on in knowledge you forget a significant amount of the knowledge you learned as you began seeking so you have an ends but no means.
Finally, we see that knowledge could be dangerous and thus must be kept a secret. Like with the lemon juice in the movie, there have been many societies in history that keeps the majority at bay so as not to abuse the knowledge. What this does though is present a skewed view of wisdom because if there are only one or two wise people then the only way to interpret knowledge is through those few wise. But with many knowing knowledge then the wisdom becomes broad and in fact more wise because with more perspective one can see what seems most true. So, perhaps less knowledge is dangerous because the one wise can manipulated wisdom.