Knowledge

Knowledge used to be empowering. Knowledge brought power over others and power over yourself. The leaders of today are stuck in an ignorant sleep while the people have woken up. 

The people however are divided. We the people are reluctant to unite under one voice. Our knowledge varies depending on what individual perspective you hold as your own. 

From the moment people learned how to read they started to educate themselves. Unfortunately each and every individual life-experience grants us all a unique perspective on how we perceive this knowledge. 

Knowledge is never good or evil. Human intelligence however is a blurred spectrum tainted with our emotions. Feelings of good and evil. Joyful and depressing. 

The knowledge of the elders contradicts the knowledge of the youths. The knowledge of the religious differs from the knowledge of the atheists. 

Do you know your history? Does it make you richer or poorer? Humanity has done some unspeakable sins towards its own brethren. Slaughter, distrust, greed and mutilation. We can choose to blind ourselves with ignorance over our history or gain knowledge from it. 

In society today we have to be critical of everything we read and about everything we're taught. We have to keep an open mind and accept the uncomfortable fact that gaining knowledge can chance our perspective. To survive the monsoon of research and information we the people have to be strong enough to always choose to express love towards our brothers and sisters instead of choosing to hate our differences.