Since the dawn of human civilization, knowledge had always been a controlling force of humanity. The greatest of men and the bloodiest of all tyrants have both used knowledge as a tool to secure control over thousands and to ensure their place in history. Similarly religion, a force that has been around since prehistoric man, continues to manipulate the minds of millions in an effort to control the masses and spread its faith. To this very day the governments of nations feel it is necessary to keep secrets from their people and to censor certain information. In light of these facts, one must ask why countless groups and organization spend millions of dollars in an attempt to gain control of our minds. Has mankind decided that knowledge is inherently evil? That perhaps there are certain things we simply should not know? Conceivably our fear of knowledge lies in its misunderstanding. Knowledge has in the past proven to be both a blessing and a burden, and it is this duality of knowledge that has created a dilemma for human beings for countless centuries. We are often too quick to put the blame on knowledge, yet knowledge withou

after the event the subjective mind takes over this newly acquired knowledge and begins to analyze and interpret it. The mother of the new born child may begin to think of the greatness that her new child will achieve and that perhaps it will discover a new cure for cancer. On the other hand a doctor in the room may take that same knowledge and begin to ponder how this baby is adding to the population explosion and is bringing the world one step closer to Armageddon. Consequently, while both people initially gained the same objective knowledge of a baby's birth, only a few minutes later they are left with a very different subjective knowledge, the product of their individual minds, that is equally credible to themselves. Although this is a very innocent situation, the same sort of interpretive thinking goes on with every piece of knowledge that becomes available to us, take Einstein's equation for example. At some point after it became public knowledge one man looked at it and though to himself, "this discovery could be used to provide clean and cheap nuclear power to the masses," while another though, "with this kind of energy present in an atom, nuclear energy could be used to make the ultimate weapon." Thus the real question lies in why so many different interpretations result out of the same objective knowledge.

t interpretation is ineffectual, only in the mind of a human being can it grow to be a menace or a savior.

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