Degrees of Inadequacy

Reading this week’s chapter in Love of Knowledge again, a thought occurred to me.  The situation described–where there is a self, arbitrarily in charge, favoring a kind of knowledge guaranteed never to challenge it’s claim to be in charge, while also dedicating all it’s activities to satisfying that self’s wants–perhaps masks another, more fundamental kind of hiddeness.  The hiddeness experienced in the meditation practice of “Watching the Watcher”, for instance.  Perhaps part of what we call the self would remain hidden even if we succeeded in expanding technological knowledge with elements of self observation.  What might improve would be the depth of the disconnect between the supposed purity of “objective” knowledge, and the supposed irrelevance of how we use its results.  –Michael