Importance of Apparently Useless Knowledge
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009For some unidentified reason, humans are glad to treasure and from time to time take up random useless knowledge. This useless knowledge is the resultant of millenia of fact collection and organization performed by humans all over the Earth. Our draw to useless knowledge facts may be just as much a byproduct of our personal existential impulse to accumulate information to help us identify ourselves within that world. Our identity may very well endure in the countless knowledge gathered since the beginning of wrote human culture.
While we are oftentimes confused about the meaning of these factoids, we are nonethless driven by them. Lists of these bits of knowledge have been compiled for ages. Even in the modern era, we see them in tomes like “Guinness World Records”, whose publication has been in the hands of many hundreds of thousands members of our species. Within these lists, we find that our own different concerns and neuroticisms aren’t so peculiar. This provides us with a level of comfort that may help us continue moving in the mode we have become used to.
If we existed on a cultural space whose goals and needs were not accumulated, our our own eternal spirit might also be mangled by time.
