Knowledge

Power is implied b/c the bulb could not otherwise emit yellow lines.

Knowledge is power.  That’s a given.  Everyone who has any knowledge—especially the salacious kind—is aware of its power over others.  I have heard that is how certain people are able to maintain their standing despite a preponderance of incompetence.  What has knowledge done for you lately?  It has been essential to me in my efforts to crush AcMo’s competitors.

It should also be common knowledge that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  I don’t believe I have shared any groundbreaking information yet.  That comes after the break when I know I’ve snagged your attention and the sponsors have obtained their pound of flesh.  An intense and unrelenting focus on the concept of knowledge and power has produced new insight.  This is liable to upend your entire belief structure.  Once it is broken, it can never be reassembled.  Do not read past this sentence if you are not certain you can handle the truth.

Through the transitive property, sprinkled with a modicum of logic sleight of hand, and high level of deduction, I have come to the conclusion that knowledge is corruption.  This should have been obvious from the start.  Tell me I'm wrong.  I would wait for an answer, but I’m convinced it isn’t possible to form an argument I’ll accept over my thesis.  I’ve already tried, and there is no one better at arguing with me than myself.

Now that I’ve made this connection, I can’t undo it.  This is the cost of always thinking and innovating.  Sometimes the results are undesirable.  Truth cannot be denied though.  Everything in life is a precious balance.  It is so hard to maintain that balance all of the time.  It is like walking a tightrope between the roofs of two buildings without a safety net during a windstorm.  I can’t handle a tightrope a foot off the ground, so for sure I’m done at any respectable height.  Most people avoid the stress by overcompensating to one extreme and avoid seeking even at all costs.

The quest for knowledge has taken too high a priority in my daily schedule.  There is so much to learn from Wikipedia, and only so many hours each day to learn it.  I’ve been feeling like a failure because I only manage to scratch the surface each day while the kernels elude me.  My recent discovery that knowledge is corruption has caused me to adjust my process.  I am discontinuing my quest for knowledge before it pushes me to corruption.  It is bad enough losing a hard drive to corrupt sectors, but I couldn’t live with myself if I were to become corrupt.  Now that I think about it, storing too much knowledge within hard drives probably causes most of their failures.  In that sense, knowledge might be like cancer since it corrupts cells and then spreads its corruption to other cells whenever possible.  Knowledge is even more insidious than I thought.  All institutions of higher education have been fomenting the spread of this dastardly concept for hundreds if not thousands of years.  No wonder we are in such a sorry state.

The audio/video recording devices my team has placed within our competitor's offices will be decommissioned.  It was getting difficult to accomplish anything at AcMo when watching and listening to all of our feeds and trying to find new angles to crush our competitors occupied most of my time.

Any action I take that can reduce the workload here is helpful.  This will allow some of the surveillance team to do other important tasks, such as finally clearing out the storage space so we can park some of our client’s vehicles indoors for once.  I've been asking for this to be completed for months, but they've always complained they didn't have time due to their other responsibilities--this despite the fact that I have been clear that the complaint department no longer exists.  They will have the time now.

I was so proud of myself for taking a stand against knowledge and the accumulation of it that I lost focus.  My reflexive need to gain more knowledge had me performing subconscious research.  What should have ended my knowledge quest for good turned out to only be a brief pause.  I’m certain that this would have been the end of the discussion had I not learned about Arrowsight.  Their remote video auditing technology monitors employees and processes in real-time all of the time.  That means I don’t have to do that anymore and I will be alerted when somebody messes up and tries to hide it.  There is nowhere left to hide.  If only I had implemented the technology before Compensation Package had escaped from the briefcase.  The siege would have ended in minutes instead of years, months, or weeks, however long the ordeal lasted.  It felt like years in my mind, so that’s what it must have been.

Arrowsight’s products will provide AcMo with the tools to both improve operational efficiency and keep a close eye on the employees.  I am so glad we are at the leading edge of technological advancements and that I'm not afraid to deploy technology to improve AcMo.  I have to pat myself on the back for being a maverick.

My knowledge quest has resumed in full force with improvements. I’ll just have to be extra careful with it and not let it corrupt or infect me.  I think I can fight it and only use the knowledge gained for AcMo’s benefit.  Maybe knowledge isn’t as bad as I thought.