John Fowles: "Mankind needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution."
John Fowles: “Mankind needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.”
That quote, IMHO, is Profound.
I have long considered the implications on a society in which all that can be known was known.
It would be the End. Like driving a bus with all of mankind on board at 1000 mph for centuries and hitting a brick wall.
Everything thing stops. The future stops. Hope Stops. All that continues is the slow motion deconstruction of the billions of pieces of accumulated knowledge diffused into meaninglessness.