knowledge

what good is knowledge
if it is used to exclude
to oppress and seclude
to concentrate power
and create hierarchies

what is the point of knowing
something if that knowledge serves
your narcissistic urge to put yourselves
above others who you know nothing about

what point in accumulating knowledge
if it keeps you from wanting to know more
about the essential things in life?
if it leads you to hubris
and not to humility?
if it leads you to isolation at an imagined top
and not to connection at the base
where we are all the same
because we truly are?

what good is knowledge if it
cements the illusion
rather than deconstructs it?

you build palaces of words and thoughts and concepts
they are full of jewellery
but void of love?

what is the point of it all?
where do you want to go with it?

what happens with your palace if you keep going in circles?

what happens to you as you build stuff to keep yourself from recognising simple truths

life is simple not complex
it is simple but not easy
to hold the paradoxes
so you flee yourself into the complex
to distract yourself from your fear of holding
the paradoxes within your heart and chest

you throw yourself into binaries
into dichotomies
manichean perspectives

poor you.
keep building.
keep accumulating what you call knowledge
just to realise
you don’t know shit.