Information, knowledge and wisdom are the three words which are generally seen as synonyms but actually differ significantly from one another. I remember the quote by famous American spiritual teacher Ram Dass, “Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.” In this quote, he beautifully differentiates the three words. After analysing the initial statement, I can understand that there can be two ways of gaining knowledge, one an easy way like reading book or watching a movie and second a difficult way i.e. through experience, hardship and struggles. Although, it’s commonly believed that knowledge gained through difficulty is valued more, I wish to explore the knowledge question, to what extent
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The biggest example of this is the incidence of bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was on August 6th of the year 1945 that witnessed the ghastly incidence of the first atomic bombing on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. The impact was so devastating that the 90% of the city was instantly wiped and 80,000 people lost their life. However, this was just a beginning, tens of thousands of people lost their life in the days to follow due to exposure to radiation. This incidence was enough to give us a signal that atomic bombings have devastating consequences. But we ignored the knowledge. Three days after this incidence, another American B29 bomber dropped the second atomic bomb, taking lives of 40,000 people . The repercussions were so severe that it had long lingering effect even on the generations to come. But we didn’t stop making atomic bombs and in fact after this there was a frenzy among countries to make more and more nuclear weapons. According to a list created by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), America today has 7,300 nuclear warheads, while Russia conducted its nuclear test just 4 years after the first nuclear bombing and today has 8000 nuclear warheads. The top 9 countries with most number of nuclear warheads have a total of 16,300 nuclear weapons . These incidences tells us how we didn’t value the knowledge that we had gained …show more content…
Ironically, the era that began after the devastating Hiroshima and Nagasaki episodes is called the era of Long Peace . Looking at the aftermath of the war we could see even if late, we could reason and acknowledge the ill effects of the nuclear attack. All the countries seems to have learned a lesson and the world has seen the least wars in the last 5 centuries and the most number of democracy were formed in this era. After the World War II in 1949, the historical Nuclear Proliferation Treaty was formed which appealed all the nations never to acquire nuclear weapons. Except 9 nations all the countries signed the treaty. This treaty also proposed to pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons. Since then USA has eliminated over 13000 nuclear weapons. This pursuit against the weapons has brought forward a global change with countries coming in peace treaties amongst them and hence reducing the number of cold
The biggest example of this is the incidence of bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was on August 6th of the year 1945 that witnessed the ghastly incidence of the first atomic bombing on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. The impact was so devastating that the 90% of the city was instantly wiped and 80,000 people lost their life. However, this was just a beginning, tens of thousands of people lost their life in the days to follow due to exposure to radiation. This incidence was enough to give us a signal that atomic bombings have devastating consequences. But we ignored the knowledge. Three days after this incidence, another American B29 bomber dropped the second atomic bomb, taking lives of 40,000 people . The repercussions were so severe that it had long lingering effect even on the generations to come. But we didn’t stop making atomic bombs and in fact after this there was a frenzy among countries to make more and more nuclear weapons. According to a list created by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), America today has 7,300 nuclear warheads, while Russia conducted its nuclear test just 4 years after the first nuclear bombing and today has 8000 nuclear warheads. The top 9 countries with most number of nuclear warheads have a total of 16,300 nuclear weapons . These incidences tells us how we didn’t value the knowledge that we had gained …show more content…
Ironically, the era that began after the devastating Hiroshima and Nagasaki episodes is called the era of Long Peace . Looking at the aftermath of the war we could see even if late, we could reason and acknowledge the ill effects of the nuclear attack. All the countries seems to have learned a lesson and the world has seen the least wars in the last 5 centuries and the most number of democracy were formed in this era. After the World War II in 1949, the historical Nuclear Proliferation Treaty was formed which appealed all the nations never to acquire nuclear weapons. Except 9 nations all the countries signed the treaty. This treaty also proposed to pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons. Since then USA has eliminated over 13000 nuclear weapons. This pursuit against the weapons has brought forward a global change with countries coming in peace treaties amongst them and hence reducing the number of cold