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Im only posting this because it annoys me that I thought it. "Knowledge is not power, acting on knowledge is." At first, I totally agreed. Thought I'd tuck it
by alan_cx 13y ago
Im only posting this because it annoys me that I thought it.
"Knowledge is not power, acting on knowledge is."
At first, I totally agreed. Thought I'd tuck it away as a keeper, a small pearl of wisdom. A good thing, right?
But then the bloody NSA thing floated in to my my mind and ruined it. They have knowledge in the form of all that data they slurp. They haven't acted on the vast majority of it, but many people, including the sort of people the NSA are unlikely to ever be even vaguely interested in, have changed their behavior as a direct result of knowing what the NSA has and what could be done with it. So, NSA does have power from knowledge they are not acting on.
Shame, because I do know what you are getting at.
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- pkroll 13y agoWhat they're collecting is information. Their knowledge is in how to collect all of it, and access it. That's where they're taking action.
- lcedp 13y agoGood critical thinking, though you can view knowledge as the method of slurping the data NSA slurped and acting on knowledge as the slurping process itself.