zero knowledge society.

there was a time before time... when all was in the dark, no one could see anything, they were dark times, and then god said.. let there be light, He willed it, and it was done, and the world changed for ever!.... awww shoot!

we started to see things, observe them, understand them, analyze, rationalize assess them against other rationalized theories, practices, experiences... we started seeing things for what they were, potentially and actively, and found them to be very threatening. because logically it was concluded that people go bad. so every thing people do, can do, will do, must do, will be done bad. faith in everyone was lost in the fear that knowledge created. people somehow extrapolated their bad experiences, mapped them over real life scenarios and
this made people unhappy... very unhappy...! they now knew that u cant exchange metals for food.. will work for food became outdated, they wanted to work for more, shiney little pieces of metal seemed like a nice thing to work for, you collect them and then exchange them for food, shelter clothing, and better food, bigger shelters and more clothing and so on... this too wouldnt satisfy us.. we wanted more, we knew we wanted more, and we knew we wanted to know more... and so we fought, we travelled, invented, discovered, shed more light on the world, got more and more unhappy, the closer and smaller the world got the more unhappy we became... and there in came about Angelina Jolie's personalized lower belly tattoo "Quod me nutrit me destruit" or for the latin-ically challenged "what nourishes me, also destroys me". the knowing has undone our faith and trust in everything, and we have to rationalize everything, we have to necessarily do a worst case scenario simulation before we get into anything, we have become more cautioned, more surefooted and lost our ability to adventure, to try out new less done things, knowledge has its price and sometimes times its just not worth it.We started decaying the minute we were born, and there is no such things as immortality, the only question is can we go back?...

now imagine if it were possible, we could go back to not knowing, if it were possible that we formed a society in the middle of nowhere, connected to nothing but those around us, no information super-ways, no internet, no vast libraries chronicling our rights and wrongs, just us, no wise men of the village, no rules forbidding, just our morals, and respect for each mans private space, you trust everyone and they trust you back. and all progressing with the same pace, progress not because of resource availability, but because of shared and collaborative enterprise. and it is all beautiful... now imagine this same society in present day, we force feeding trust in our system, us looking for means for peaceful coexistence, no them vs us, just plain we. take the whole web 2.0 movement and make it earth 2.0 and start open-sourcing our lives, you use my knowledge in exchange for yours, back to barter living. no economics, just a collaboratively grown knowledge society, the power that knowledge brought would now percolate right to the bottom, forming a corruption free society with pure progress,we move forth only when we move together.... the individual as significant as the community and no one left behind. pure utopia. non corrupting power, zero singular knowledge, absolute trust. pure bliss...
in the valley of the one eyed, the blind men shall rule! The end...or the beginning...:)