do we know too much ???

[Bunnyboy]

Cant things just be solved with kittens?

[Moritz Morpheus MkIII]

well, yes:

[Bunnyboy]

go kitty!!

[gizmo]

Yipes, that kitten. But to get back to the original interesting question, what I'm finding is that knowledge -- let alone wisdom -- is increasingly suspect because the people who've spent all their time creating personal power -- and are therefore nominally in control -- don't have any interest in or any time to figure out anything about quality. Quality makes power very uncomfortable because it is de facto from a higher order: it's power is effortless, not effort-full. That is, people respond to quality without being tricked or coerced. Also, most people are stressed on the one hand and lazy on the other: MP3 is easy, don't bug us with other formats unless you can make them just as easy. Quality issues like this just don't matter for most people because paying attention at this level isn't possible or too painful. I'd also say that IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY. If you read Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1648 I think) or look at Bosch or Bruegel, it's clear that they were working to try to get more GENERAL AWARENESS so people would stop subscribing to what was then consensus culture. So do people here know more? Definitely. The question is if or how it can be implemented to make things better. The big problem is most people don't want better, they want easier. Can better be made easier? Not sure: better always seems to involve paying closer attention. Most people don't realize how positively paying attention can effect their quality of life because they avoid it like the plague. So, on it goes. I'm really just happy to have figured stuff like this out and not been jailed like Galileo or burned like Bruno. I mean, you'd think a better and free audio format would be a no-brainer, but actually it's an underground revolutionary act... Too bizarre!