Is Knowledge Still Power?

Or is it Ignorance? This writer grew up in a confident era. The U.S.A. had just brought to bear the weight of G.M., Boeing and its formidable food production to humble Naziism and Imperial Japan. Your blogger started college, learned theories of Newton, Maxwell, and observed that coal miners from Pennsylvania could be teamed with a smattering of muscles from outstate Michigan to humble the misnamed "Fighting Irish". He saw the world is willing to burn up millenia worth of stored carbon to power inefficient vehicles that deliver humans to very remote vacations Gradually, he stopped thinking of every live birth as a gift from a beneficent God. He came to doubt that the power of prayer could cause his Creator to vacate the laws of physics and biology which he must have created. He observed Fox News promoting the ignorance of female demagogues from Alaska and Minnesota and the great Satan from Rio Linda California and feels bad about the vast store of ignorance he has not wiped out in his career as an educator. He did not even enjoy the company of Helen of Troy along the way. Oh well, Faust had it good, but that is legend, not biography.