Re: Knowledge-related roots in sabyuk

En réponse à julien eychenne <eychenne.j@...>:

>
> Oops. Yes, beingness is much better. Thank you.
>
You're welcome :) .

 I should add that only sabyàjà can occupy political functions
> : this is due to the fact that, according to xayijà, knowledge leads to
> wisdom,
If only it was so simple... :)))

 so only wise people are allowed to take important decisions. The
> underlying idea is to see the relations that could appear between the
> language and a such organized society ;)
>
Well, then it all depends on how the xayijà "measure" knowledge. If they
consider that the only way to acquire wisdom is to follow the official classes
of the sabyàjà, sanctionned by an official diploma, to behave like them and not
to question their knowledge even once, in other words to be strongly conformist
(like in the academic world on this planet ;))) ), then it's a conservative
meritocracy which is not unlike the hierarchy of the Catholic church. On the
other hand, if they recognize that knowledge can be obtained
through "alternative" ways, that knowledge can always be questioned, and that
conformism is *not* the way to knowledge, then it may be a nicer place than
what I envision ;))) . But the claim that "knowledge leads to wisdom" doesn't
give me much hope... ;)))

Anyway, that's way off-topic, but may be food for thoughts.

>
> Neither would I : I'd be too lazy to become a sabyàjà ;).
>
I would probably be to rebellious to ever be considered a sabjàjà, even though
I'm quite sure that I would be wiser than most of them ;))) .

Christophe.

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