Knowledge for Knowledge

Have you ever noticed how the meaning of science has changed? The change has been so subtle and gradual that most truth seekers of our time might have overlooked it, but it has changed, and that is the sad truth. The knowledge that used to be for finding the truth has turned to the knowledge for seeking power.

Magnificently, science took religion’s place with the promise of a better world, and now it is making more money than any kind of business. Students gain the knowledge, and superior countries and famous companies buy them for their own profits. Irony is in the fact that these people do it with no shame and no hesitation. This is the science that exists today. Our modern science has lost the holiness it once proudly possessed, and truth that used to show us “the right path” has changed to the truth that is all about economy and entertainment, and this is how ideology changes to technology.

Science is betraying the mankind, and an ideologist who is not aware of this is a betrayer himself. Men and science left the sanctuaries to substitute technology for love and make heaven on earth. This heaven though, is made of only one substance: money; a kind of heaven in which love, honor, beauty and art do not exist.

Now science is in the hands of people whose worth is based on the money in their pockets; People who value the beauty of art by hanging master pieces on their living room walls, and make science the play toy of their children.

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Inspired by Dr. Shariaty’s article “Freedom”