Sunday, October 6, 2019

The End of Knowledge


"it is easy to centralize power but  impossible to centralize all knowledge which is distributed  over many individual minds... Unable to ascertain what is in  the minds of many individuals,( the state ) just try to  control and stereotype interests and beliefs by education  and propaganda. But this attempt ( by the state) to exercise  power over minds must destroy the last possibility of finding out what people really think, for it is clearly  incompatible with the free expression of thought, especially of critical thought. Ultimately it must destroy knowledge;  and the greater the gain in power, the greater will be the loss of knowledge."  -  Karl Popper.  

 

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