Elephants and Millions of Ants - III

3.

I do not know many things for which I go to them.

They are The Unknowledgeable marginally living on the fringes of unenlightenment. They are The Unenlightened. Enlightenment has never dawned on their horizon. They are the wretched of the world.

I go to them time and again to know many things which I do not know but they know. They know too many things to let others know.

I return from them always getting enlightened many times over by their common sense of common good. Their common sense for common good is their wisdom which they inherit genealogically. It is their genealogical knowledge passed from one generation to another.

They know many stunning things with no expertise of knowledge to boast over. It is pedagogy of the oppressed vastly expanded in a democratic world. Democracy is inherently ingrained in their customs and cultures. They know and let others know to propagate wisdom through the length and breadth of time and space. It is not a quagmire of lies and pretences, it is a treasure trove of age-old observations, inferences and experiences. Not only that, a unique mechanism of intuitions has gathered some stunningly beautiful knowledge for them which stand them in good stead in times of crisis and damage.

And they do not know many things. But that do not deter them in any way whatsoever to pursue their course of life. High-falutin mumbo-jumbo is not their way of luxury. They only know what they should know and they do not know what they should not know. What they know is their common knowledge to be stored and restored for common good and for common partaking. Their knowledge is participatory and shared knowledge all the way. It is born in community, it prospers in community but never dies in community until and unless better wisdom prevails in the end.

They do not know what they think not wise.

Wisdom is the very basis of their existence. Relying on all assumptions, presumptions, suppositions and intuitions, their wisdom spreads in thousand wings. Shamamism, occultism and magic wizardry have come a long way down the ages and had died in the natural course of civilization. But they have carried their true legacy of sorts in a new paradigm. That is the virtuosity of their wisdom. Who can deny that Socratic wisdom too has passed through many paradigm shifts to stand to the test of time? Had not the Socratic Paradox given a big jolt among the Sophists? But that ultimately broke open the door for dialectical knowledge.

Theirs is the ants' eyeview of knowledge, seeing reality from the bottom. That grassroot reality is the diurnal reality which never gets bogged down into a blackhole. It is myth, mystery, hearsay, intuition, experience and all possible resources gathered from ancient times to post-modernist period that constitute the cornerstone of sub-altern knowledge system and is propagated through interactive and dialogical converses. And from generation to generation it caters to the multi-culture needs of the common people. It is need-based and value-added as ready reference to functional parity of common senses.

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