Knowledge Capital
Of course we may want to be knowledge capitalists. So then it is wise to attend a college of knowledge, and there each course will increase our knowledge capital until finally it can be converted into a convertable currency called a degree.
But still we are dealing with sin. The sin of lending money for interest is called usury, and the sin of selling the spriritual is called simony. And the sin of selling knowledge is a combination of the sins of usury and simony.
But with very few exceptions the selling of knowledge is a ponzi scheme, a pyramid scheme - it only works if new buyers can be brought in continuely at the bottom of the pyramid.
And that is what the education system is for - it is to bring in new recuits at the bottom of the pyramid of knowledge. For education is free, secular and compulsory. Yes, we are compelled by State Law to attend this ponzi scheme of knowledge. And notice the hook - it's 'free' - and how we love anything free.
But whereas it is useful to have primary schools to teach us to read and write, all the rest are unnecessary, for today we learn to use the telephone, television, the radio, the computer and the ipod, all without any compulsion, and all without going to school.
The truth is knowledge capitalism is experiencing diminishing returns, graduates are finding themselves unemployed across the Middle East, throughout Europe and increasingly in the United States.
And today we see them out on the streets demanding change. Or are they just demanding more of the same? Have we become addicted to the accumulation of knowledge capital?