We all go about our everyday lives knowing with some comfort how to do what we want to get done. Without some degree of confidence, we would be frozen in doubt. We accept statements by credible authorities that we trust as more probably the truth.
Knowledge is power, right? That could be true. We act with the knowledge known, yet seldom stop to examine how we accept it’s truth or rightness for our lives. Most of these things come from other’s thinking or the dark recesses of the past.
Knowledge is not more important being either ancient or modern. The earth is no longer flat. Googling is real, action and word, useful to find out what is going on and find out what is true. It is wise to see newer true findings as useful since we are living right now. That could be more useful than older stuff.
We are constantly finding out that things believed in the past are really not true. Sometimes these changes are hard to accept. It is uncomfortable. But the tide of history shows that fewer children die of preventable childhood diseases now that we understand how those diseases work. With the knowledge we have accumulated, we now have much more authority over what once was unforeseen forces, and as the Romans remarked, the wrath of the gods.
The Roman aristocracy began to have fewer and fewer children and didn’t know why. Only the common man of the era still had plenty of children. How did that happen? They didn’t know. Now we have the answer. The aristocracy had better water pipes to their homes. Lead pipes. Now we know that lead is harmful and how to make pipes that don’t poison us. Nice to know.
The drip of knowledge over time wears down even the most resistant stone.