Learn To Love Learning
How might we know that we know enough? To know enough means that there must to be a standard truth to which a collective then recognizes and deems accurate based on facts, data and statistics. It has come to my concern that the average intelligence of the individual in their ability to recognize, asses, organize, communicate and resolve ideas as well as evidence independent from other’s opinions has become a sleeping dragon on the verge of rearing its destructive head.
Whenever I approach a new subject, I set out to ask as many dumb questions as possible as quickly as I can. This is because I know that I don’t know and need to acquire information as immediate as each relevant thought comes to mind. I have heard the phrase, exhaust the ‘why’ until you reach the end. If you were to track any path down to the source by asking why again and again, the truth and motivation behind everything will ultimately come to the same conclusion, that we will inevitably die and are motivated by our mortality.
What stands out as I socialize and observe those around me is that the mass maintains the general idea or the rudimentary understanding of any given topic. The averaged thoughts and common thread of information that comes from the result of the entire population. Whether, for example, that be the score from the last sports game, or the news from the previous week. That sum then becomes the zeitgeist, regarded as the basic or common knowledge of the conscious collective, but what would cause any basic truth to be later considered falsities? Because fact and therefor truth is categorized by its aim for a singular founding principle to which all other things derive their meaning from, one way would be to uncover a new factor that shapes and reveals a more refined understanding of the previous truth. But as of recent years, another would be to add considerations to the pre-existing factors that then reshaped the understanding of what was previously deemed true. But then that truth, based on the core principle, now has two, three, four, plus cores which is theoretically impossible. So to convince people that there are multiple cores or truths means that there is a misguidance within our education.
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” -C.S. Lewis
Within these same crowds, I hear all too often, “Um, like, you know, basically, if, you know, I feel that, more or less, something like that. You know what I’m saying?” This inarticulate jargon is an indication of uncertain and explorative thinking that then seeks affirmation. It is a type of speech that signals lack of understanding with a desire for reassurance. By grouping opposing ideas together and dividing those communities further from one another creates eco chambers. The one truth remains unassumingly so while all others then try to assert and direct their truths at it in order to drowned out and over power. This means that each additional group asserts their collective truths to be more true than that of any other’s which by default can only be based on the remaining factors of feelings, thoughts and ideas or else their ideology falls short.
“Of course, you can't have facts for everything. The same thing is true here: you don't have to know everything; you just have to know enough to work out solutions or methods of attack.” -Albert Einstein
It is critical to take heed from Einstein’s words. Knowing ‘enough’ must always be followed up by clarifying who’s standards and asking yourself how do they benefit by defining which information is important and what amount of knowledge is enough for you to know something? What we conclude by hearing from all sides of every argument is exhausting, but would inevitably always boiled down to the objective truest of truths because if we can’t know that to be true objectively, than we can’t know much of anything at all.
-Busy Brain