I’m impressed that the very organization of this post embodies the meaning of the post: you are incorporating an historical, evolutionary view of knowledge and how we handle it. The notion of evolving, changing, rhizomatic knowledge has always been the case, I think, but that was difficult to see in the past when knowledge evolved so slowly that any generation could think of it as eternal, timeless, non-evolutionary. When nothing new has emerged within the memory of any living person, then knowledge must be permanent and timeless, and it is the experts, seers, prophets, and all those otherwise closest to the eternal gods who possess the right answers. It made sense, then, to seek out the authority when looking for answers.

Answers today change so quickly that we can no longer deceive ourselves that knowledge is timeless. It isn’t. Like everything else in the universe, knowledge is time-bound, emergent and evolutionary, constantly generating new answers. Today, our technology makes that happen so much faster; hence, the abundance. I like this.