What Is the Cost of Knowledge?

The ancient sceptics, the peronians, they tryd to tell us that knowing was impossible. But in the western intellectual tradition, we didn't take them seriously. You can use knowledge in a pragmatic and instrumental manner, but with a deep cost. Most people who are knowing about anything, they don't consider this cost. The cost of knowing is closed mindedness, getting stuck in one's simplistic narratives. Ideology, self deception. I have a three part series on self deception. Go check that out. This connects with that very well as well. Another cost is confusing the map for the territory. It'll connect with this episode here.