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    1. 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?

    2. Ancient traditions of knowledge admitted only two kinds of ignorance.First, an individual might be ignorant of something important. To obtainthe necessary knowledge, all he needed to do was ask somebody wiser.There was no need to discover something that nobody yet knew.

      In modern Philippine society, the Philippines does not fit neatly into a conservative and centrist-leaning system due to the still imposed traditional social values, yet it still exhibits a democratic framework on politics and center-right economics. In accordance with Harari’s points on the acquisition of knowledge in conventional fashion, information outlets and public discourses were suppressed on behalf of a superior political landscape—with knowledge being dismissed as a deficiency in aligning with what was more considered righteous in political polarization. Hence, knowledge was by far only offered to those who had the resources to profit on gaining new powers, and those who had less relied on asking individuals who possessed the correct answer to their questions—and if those questions did not align with their radar, then that leads to the curiosity being unimportant in something that has not yet been discovered nor been studied with weight. Filipinos depend on authoritative figures to access and provide information, as it is controlled on dissemination and those who get access to it may challenge either dominant political or cultural values.