Knowledge: Monetary and Conceptual

I do see the world from a philosophical point of view, being born and raised in a colonized and persecuted culture and with the mission my elders conferred upon me it was essential that I learn to understand how things work, this required an extensive and life long quest for understanding.

Theory of knowledge is at the core of human psychology, if a person doesn't understand that, then all that he or she thinks is real frequently turns out to be unreal. I am not trained in the university way, I educated myself as I found when I was very young, certainly in grade school, that the basis of knowledge was different in my native culture than it was in the majority culture around me.. I was small and weak, without power or money I had to figure things out for myself.

This is applicable in the current banking and monetary crisis. Money that is backed by goods and services is valid money in the same way that knowledge that is backed by actual things and events is valid knowledge. If money is just vacant credits with nothing behind it, then it a house built on sand, a house of cards that will collapse at some point when the false value will be unequal to the task it is claimed to represent. Same is true of knowledge. If your concepts have a basis in the real world of things and events in such a way that they can be publicly verifiable in every respect where one might be tempted to act on them, then your knowledge is accurate. If your claim to knowledge is not based on verifiable facts then your claim to knowledge is vain and anyone who believes what you say is in danger whenever he or she attempts to act on such false claims to knowledge, actual physical and psychological danger.