FREE AND EASY KNOWLEDGE, A BLESSING? OR A CURSE?

The power that comes with adequate knowledge and information is really interesting and also mind blowing.

The love and search for knowledge has led to many researches, and invention. from the days where hard work is inputted before knowledge is achieve, we have migrated to the time when the only effort need to gain knowledge is clicking and navigating through websites.

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I am happy to be in this day and age where getting knowledge is very cheap and easy. Most people, nowadays, can't pass through the stress of going from one library to another, looking through book shelfs and searching through different table of contents while inhaling the dusts that comes from a book, just to get the knowledge they seek. I must say, the internet has made things really easy, but the big question here is; having access to cheap and easy knowledge, is it actually a good thing? or is it the opposite of good?

I believe in hard work, but I don't really like stressing over something. It is inarguable that the concept of working hard is really important, but then, lets look at the bright side, cheap and easy knowledge has a whole lot of advantages which it offers to every body.

When I sit in my room and do a research, I actually have the luxury to multitask. I can be doing my research and be doing another thing at the same time, thus, spending the time made for one task, on two tasks simultaneously.

Compared to those days when knowledge is gotten through extensive hard work, burning midnight candles and stay up late in the library and through other means, this day and age give access to a wide range of knowledge for free, no need to pay for transportation to the library, all you need to do is to open your gadget, and make research on the right site.

Though it is easier to get knowledge now, the easy access of knowledge has made a lot of lazy to make research without the aid of technology.

Think about it, during those days, the time of Albert Einstein and the likes, they had a very good knowledge about their field of practice probably because, even though they had other people's research to give them knowledge, they still went on their own to search and see for themselves. Comparing how knowledgeable the men of the old were, to how knowledgeable we are today, will be like comparing the hunting instincts of a dog and that of a tiger.

There is a saying; when you offer to teach somebody something for free, they will never value that knowledge because they did not work off their ass to get the knowledge. I guess that's probably what is happening now. Yes, it is free knowledge, but it has not only made this generation less eager to search for knowledge, but has also alleviated the fun there is in flipping books to look in details for the knowledge you seek.

Personally, I will not totally agree that free and easy-to-get knowledge is actually a blessing, but then, one thing I can say is that, it has its own merits and dis advantages, and from the look of things, it seems like the advantage is slightly greater than the disadvantage, all depending on where you view it from.

Thank you for reading.

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