Commentary
Knowledge grows faster than our capacity to learn. Our own knowledge shrinks as a sliver of the total available. We risk becoming ignorant, provincial—ideological islands separated from all who disagree.
Look at any recent study. For example, on Dec. 8 the Fraser Institute reported that Canadian patients now wait 27.4 weeks for treatment, the longest ever recorded.
What do you do with this information? Accept it without question? Try to digest the research? Or ignore it, simply because Fraser published it?
The Fraser Institute does excellent research, but it challenges most of academia and much of the legacy media.
An Inevitable Age of Ignorance
R. Buckminster Fuller proposed the “Knowledge Doubling Curve” in 1982. He noted that in 1900, knowledge doubled every 100 years. By 1945, it doubled every 25 years, and by 1982, it doubled every 12-13 months….