The fundamental and general nature of knowledge and knowing is ‘abstract’. And that’s the beauty of it, isn’t it? When we know for a reason, we are policy-makers, politicians, businessmen, or activists. But it’s fun to know just to know. There isn’t a specific reason to know the poetry of Ghalib or Goethe. Yet we know it. Intellectualism is a very real pursuit unto itself. Now, high technology, on the other hand, is making everything concrete, tangible, explicit, and crystallized. Personally, too much technology has started putting me off. I think it’s dumbing us down. Return to a world of imagination, ideas, and intellectualism. Put your phone down and read more, write more. Appreciate art, music, and culture. Do it not for a reason, do it because it’s human nature to love the abstract.
