Hello and welcome to the moment that you (yes, all two of you) have been waiting for - the second installment of “How does knowledge work”. This is exciting right? Riight?

We all communicate, or at least we think we do. And I mean communicate in the broadest sense, from spoken communication to written to visual, from informal to formal (in the sense of logically-formal). We will look into all of that and we will present a whole theory of how communication happens that is based on the first installment of “How does knowledge work” where we basically established a logical framework for modeling how the human mind works.

You remember that, right? Right? Well, maybe the reason you fell asleep was that you actually were more interested in how people communicate with one another. Could this be it? Well, listen up, it’s actually interesting. Plus what better things you have to do? Communicate with actual people? But how would you know that you are actually communicating with them, if you are not familiar with the logical foundations of human communication?

Hello?

To kill an art, create a way to perform the utilitarian aspect of it in a way that is formulaic and efficient i.e. artless.

(The art is not really dead, it is just understood by a very small amount of people (mostly other creators).)

The art of manufacturing clothes, pottery etc were all killed in the previous generation. And in this generation, will see the dead of writing drawing and coding.

Capitalists kill arts for profit. But they don’t think collectively, so they don’t realize that profits only come from (economic) activity and the only wilful activity that people do is creating art, so by killing art you are reducing the wilful activities (AKA fun) and replacing it will unwilful ones (AKA work).

They don’t think collectively, so they are not concerned by the fact that they are creating a world that is incompatible with people: if you replace a worker with AI, your profit is up, but if all workers are replaced by AI then there can be no profits as there would be no one to buy (that’s the difference between thinking for yourself and thinking collectively).

No one will buy willingly, so what’s left is coercion: fascism, wars — those are things where you have no choice but to participate (“He who is not with Me is against Me”). Until everything is destroyed. That’s why I don’t like people who don’t like art.

The moral of all this is that Hannah Arendt’s principle of the banality of evil is also valid in the other way around: not only that evil is banal, but all banal things are evil i.e. a thing is banal if and only if it is evil.