The Written Tsunami

For thousands of years our pursuit of knowledge has been slowed, stifled, and even deliberately limited by groups with a desire to control that flow. The church is one of those groups. For centuries anything contrary to church doctrine was censored and kept from our viewing. There are still groups of church people who are attempting to limit or abridge what we are taught in schools for much the same reasons. Our scientific establishment is unfortunately guilty of the same methodology. Any scientist who deviates from the "company line" is subject to severe discipline, usually in the loss of employment or grant money. The web is changing all of that. It is easy to find alternative viewpoints by using the search engines. This has opened up a floodgate or tsunami of information that threatens to go to the other extreme and give us too much information. It has never been easier to follow threads of information to a place where you can feel comfortable with what you know. It is my hope that more and more people will take advantage of this fact and start to self-educate themselves. There are dangers in this from the spread of cults and the poliferation of false theories. Is this bad? I don't think it hurts us in the long term, no matter what damage is done in the short term. I encourage anyone who is attracted to the Gnostic Way to commence his or her own search for truth. Perhaps some day the establishment will find a way to censor the web just as they have censored our flow of ideas in the past. Best to start now while you still can.