Posting, for Posting Sake
Literature for literature's sake or art for art's sake or knowledge for knowledge's sake...
In my mind, not one of those approaches has a leg to stand on.
There's always something else to consider.
With 'knowledge for knowledge's sake', you cannot avoid using the knowledge. It can never be purely knowledge for the sake of knowing something. If it were knowledge for pure knowing, then we'd be file cabinets - Locked file cabinets. If you know something, you'll want to think about it or tell some other sentient being. If you think about it and/or tell someone, you are using that knowledge. Whether it's for self reflection or to show someone you know this useless fact, it's always knowledge for the sake of using it to add to someone's life.
There, that's my thought for today. Now I must write a paper about it.
3 comments:
but pie for pie's sake, now THAT'S a possibility...
instead of writing the paper about it, you should just hand in a piece of paper with this BLOG's address on it. That would definitely be easier.
Hmmm...
Maybe I could qualify my statement with: "I still believe in art for art's sake and the like - that is, if you're talking about art without profit."
But pie for pie's sake... I can live with that. Maybe I'll ask the wife to bake some pie... Nah, not right away at least, I've got a cake to eat yet.
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