It has been my experience that knowledge, and often its complement; intellect, are most often used to inappropriate purposes, specifically, they become weapons. As a weapon, knowledge is ill equipped to the task.
When attempting to defeat the ignorant with missiles of knowledge, one should reflect on who the enemy is. Is the enemy "the ignorant" or is the enemy "conceptual ignorance"?
Nevertheless, I am no longer in a battle against ignorance or ignorants. Instead, I come in peace and make gift offerings of empirical understanding that have been seasoned with personal opinion; laying them at the feet of the ramparts of ignorance.
- Knowledge is not a smart bomb.
- When attacking with erroneous facts, knowledge becomes a defective grenade, and gouges ravines that will impede further advance.
- Knowledge is made clumsy and fruitless, when being assailed from high ramparts of willful ignorance.
