While government and wealthy patrons allocatedfunds to education and scholarship, the aim was, in general, to preserveexisting capabilities rather than acquire new ones. The typicalpremodern ruler gave money to priests, philosophers and poets in thehope that they would legitimise his rule and maintain the social order.He did not expect them to discover new medications, invent newweapons or stimulate economic growth.
Knowledge deters preserving existing capabilities in a way that it revolutionizes radical progress rather than to pivot on what has already been established. While the scientific revolution took a break on knowledge preservation, this has led to a more fertile ground for paradigm shifts, disruptive innovations, and creative destructions. Harari’s point on how imperial ties gatekeep discovery speaks volume on how the scientific revolution has been admitted as a nature of ignorance in order to forge capabilities on the centrality of assuming that there is more yet to know. Thus, this poses a question of: If modern science is structured on the belief of the latin injunction ignoramus, then will the world cater towards just innovation, or perhaps a vent for extinction?