Some Basics

The nature of beings, things, and happenings, or phenomena in one word, may vary from what one knows about them, and the operating knowledge system may even be totally wrong in accounting things as they are. This sounds normal, but it also applies to collectives. Even dedicated knowledge agencies may be entirely off track hopelessly and forever. But, the power of an operating knowledge system is such that it blinds one to view the follies it may espouse.

 
The prime proof of knowledge of a society being substantive, not being frivolous or misleading, is that society itself is not a pack of herds but a community of dignified and autonomous men and women of substance. It is a nation of enterprising and responsible citizens. In other words, in a properly knowing state, a community is constituted of individuals in possession and control of their persons. If the knowledge system of the community is such, it offers a quality life to itself. It means each has the security of life, possessions, and of doing things worthwhile. To the degree one lives without fear and is free of wants and can do things which make them happy without inconveniencing others, they have, to that extent, a functional knowledge system.

 
Invariably, for any autonomous community, a troubled existence is mostly an outcome of its deficient or faulty knowledge system.

 
Epistemology matters; for those who do not care, humanism is only a notion and being sapiens is just being members of another species.

 
Niraj Kumar Jha