I also understand why some people don't like it when somebody else also learns it also. This is usually because that thing, that something that that person has learned, is their primary measure of or significant portion of their self-esteem. I see this poor deficit thinking and bad bent out of shape behavior most often in people who feel like they have paid their dues and have learned something that has been approved by the world to be expertise, skill and knowledge.
Then when someone else comes along and understands something without going through the same approval process, that person is hated on and their understandings are diminished in the eyes of those who need it most. What's really wrong with us that once we've gone to school for something, gotten a job and getting paid for something, that then we think that nobody else can be or do that something unless we make sure we separate ourselves somehow so that the way we learned is held in higher esteem? What we are doing is disrespecting all ways of knowing. Thus we are disrespecting the all-knowing and disrespecting ourselves as children and creations of the all-knowing. If god's children can't learn things in different ways, then who else can? We are conflicted with conundrums and contradictions.
This then is a goopy solidified sickness of the suboptimal worldview. The sick ones will ask you for your credentials. Justify what you know based on what another human approves as acceptable. How weak-minded we are to accept such logic.
Under this thought process, the Egyptians, the enslaved and all other Africans would not be qualified to know what they knew and do what they did. Instead they would have had to wait around for current day credentialing to become validated in their knowledge of self-esteem. And this is exactly what the European worldview has done to most African achievements that have ever existed. We Africans learned in ways dem Europeans did not, could not and have not. Thus to help their self-esteem, the knowledge of Africans is diminished. We people of today are doing the same thing because we think we know something and someone who has not followed an acceptable path of learning, is not someone we can also learn from. Be certain this does not harm the one who knows, only the ones who think they are the only ones who do.
Because we accept this logic, this is why it is hard to unify and why the white man's ice is colder and so on and on do we give doofus deference to one way of knowing and doing things. We Africans are guilty of doing this to other Africans.I am not just a rich man or a poor man or a beggar man or a thief and neither a doctor, lawyer or indian chief. I am not these small things. I am all things. I know because I am.
I know more the more I know about being I am.
I am the metaphor of knowing.
I know more than myself and more than me, yet I know less than all three combined.
