| Re: Knowledge is not Power |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Sep 13, 2008 06:55
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:46:12 +1000, Sean wrote:
> Let's say I give you 1000 labourers.
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> What use are they and what actions will they perform if:
1) you don't know how to manage 1000 labourers
2) you don't know for what valuable purpose you can use those 1000
> labourers
3) you don't know how to present a business plan to a Bank to borrow
> money to pay those 1000 labourers before you get the gold of the ground
> as one possible use
> 4) you don't know how to communicate effectively, or say, don't know
> jack shit about anything?
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> Ponder what degrees of power 1000 labourers offers you in the above
> senario without knowledge as a priory, and get back to me if you want.
'Degrees of power' is not the issue. Power alone is the issue. Your
scenario presupposes one given task for one given end that would need
1000 people to exert 1000 human units of coordinated power.
How much experience, or how many times have these laborers done this
action before? If the task at hand is, say, to dig a hole in the ground,
how many have dug holes in the ground before? Has action (power) given
them knowledge or skill? They have no knowledge without first the power
of action.
Presenting a business plan is action as is communication.
A manager directs power with actions not by just knowing how to act.
Just knowing how to manage the job results in no management as all.
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