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    jamezb46
    last edited by Apr 1, 2025, 2:18 AM

    I feel as if people greatly misunderstand this Nietzschian concept.

    It is not a positive thing; it is not a triumph; it is not something to be celebrated.

    At best, it is a special case of Nietzsche's thesis that everything is subordinate to the will to power, including knowledge.

    If true, it means that truth is dead. It means that our understanding, like a bird with broken wings, tries to fly toward truth but crashes to the earth.

    Knowledge is power is not something to be happy about. It is a tragedy.

    In time there is life but no knowledge; outside time there is knowledge but no life

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      NoeticJuice @jamezb46
      last edited by Apr 1, 2025, 3:40 AM

      @jamezb46 said in Knowledge is Power:

      everything is subordinate to the will to power, including knowledge.

      If true, it means that truth is dead.

      Knowledge is power is not something to be happy about. It is a tragedy.

      "world is the will to power—and nothing besides!" - Nietzsche

      If true, how is it possible for you to view this as a tragedy?

      "We must remember that the only instrument of investigation we possess is our mind . . . The quality and condition of the telescope govern the observation resulting from its use. If there is dust on our lens, we see dark spots in the heavens."

      🎧🎶24/7

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        Kvirion @jamezb46
        last edited by Apr 1, 2025, 9:47 AM

        @jamezb46 said in Knowledge is Power:

        If true, it means that truth is dead. It means that our understanding, like a bird with broken wings, tries to fly toward truth but crashes to the earth.

        Welcome to the real world, Neo... 😎

        Most people can only perceive (superficial) symbolic interpretations of the world, which society tells them to believe in...

        If you wanna know more, just read Simulacra and Simulation...

        BTW
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        A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
        Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
        There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
        And drinking largely sobers us again.
        ~Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

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