link to original reddit post by /u/Drunk_Rothbard
Check out this blog about the importance of knowledge both in our personal lives as well as in society as a whole:
"Like I said, dissatisfaction can stem from faulty ideas about reality – faulty philosophy – but dissatisfaction is a mild description of what can result from widespread faulty philosophy. Bad philosophy, on a grand scale, leads to war, slavery, economic destitute and genocide. Accurately, it could be said to be the mother of all hell on Earth."