Knowledge A Double Edged Sword Analysis

Knowledge, A Double-Edged Sword It's common knowledge that having greater intellect means you can be a more powerful human being. At least Fredrick Douglas´s theme in ¨Learning to Read¨ shows that in greater knowledge led to a greater understanding of oneself, and in turn, a greater person evolved from that gathered knowledge. Knowledge is a powerful anomaly, yes, but does all knowledge produce a greater future or greater fortune? Some knowledge in this world is better worth not knowing for the better you and the people around you. Such knowledge as to create harm to others, or maybe the better knowledge of one's self can cause an unwanted response. Knowledge is wanted by every individual at one point in their existence, but for what
Knowing your day of demise, the terror you would feel of that day, the amount that it would change you intellectually as a person. Or being ignorant of your certain end, not knowing the day you will perish and living peacefully as you do today, which choice seems the most logical? ¨I Envied my fellow slaves for their stupidity¨ (Douglas pg 49). The slaves at the time did not know there was any better than what they were living, they thought this was the best for them. In reality, the slaves were living very poorly, but they did not know that, but Douglass did, and look what happened to him. Douglass after learning such a world existed on the outside, lived every day feeling helpless, and sad, because of his knowledge of the outside world. When a child a kid is kept away from the reality of the world, they are told there are such things as Santa Clause and the tooth fairy. Why do we do this? It is to shield the kids from the outside world, to keep the kids ignorant of the life that awaits them because knowledge changes a person. Changes them to the point of no recollection of what they once were. Ignorance of the outside world such as terrorism, global warming, and other things that threaten our lives, keeps us all in a safe state of mind and keeps us at peace of the actuality of the world around us. In conclusion, knowledge is can lead to a more powerful person, and a deeper understanding of one's self and the essence of their existence. At least in Frederick Douglass's "Learning to Read" passage, knowledge is shown to change a person, completely conforming them and shown to have an enormous backlash. Knowledge is powerful, yes, but not all knowledge is worth learning, due to the many backlashes that come with it. Due to this, what faults does one see in being ignorant of such realities of the