Three: An Average Man

Physics can teach you how to split an atom; deciding whether you want to build, or advocate for or against, nuclear power or nuclear weapons or both or neither involves application of that knowledge. Knowledge has value in and of itself because it gives you agency, the ability to more effectively influence what happens in your own life. Some of the findings of sociological research are grim; and might make you feel out of control. But the purpose of knowing is to figure out how to take that knowledge with you and use that knowledge in your own life. What you ultimately do with that knowledge isn’t up to me; it’s up to you.