• gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    2 days ago

    very interesting topic.

    i agree that knowledge is like a virus. it consists mostly of information, and requires a host to be spread.

    apart from that, knowledge is typically considered a good thing, no?

    at least in our current, modern understanding.

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
      4·
      20 hours ago

      There’s the rub: “good” and “bad” are simply byproducts of knowledge, abstracts that don’t pertain to concrete real-world objects. As such, the medium becomes the message: knowledge must be good because it allows us the medium to consider goodness. Of course we think knowledge is good, it’s all we’ve ever known.

      It’s like making a moral claim about existence: of course we think existence is good, it’s all we’ve experienced, all we can know.

      Also: bandwagon fallacy.