knowledge is an action

In class we talked about the concept of how knowledge can be an action and how"action facilitates (the acquisition of knowledge) from a distance" (Ram-Prasad 114) I like this. To me this is analogous to the democratization of heaven that happened in the second great awakening, however this concept is merely ingrained into the practice itself. I say these two ideas are simliar because both enable every human being the ability to achieve their goal, on one hand the entrance to heaven and on the other the attainment of knowledge. To venture away from the analogy the view of knowledge as an action implies that knowledge must be learned, it does not account for the natural acquirement of knowledge. Once again I like this. I like this because, to me, this is saying what I'd like to believe all of us have been thinking for years. Ignorant people are simply lazy. Of course like any other action some people will be naturally gifted at said action, but this does not discount the fact that knowledge happens to everyone and at their choosing as well. This means that the person with the "Romney (or Obama or whoever) is a Nazi" sign that seems to be standing outside of every presidential debate is simply obese with ignorance. They have put off working out their brain for far too long and now they are a gelatinous sack of partisan stances and unoriginal opinions. Unfortunately for us we have seen how we deal with real obesity in this country and I fear intellectual obesity will be no different. No matter, skinny people will carry on as they always have, side by side with obesity trying their hardest to not draw attention to it, we can only dream that someday Richard Simmons might take off the leotard and read us all Shakespeare instead.