Knowledge is unacceptable where power is being mongered. Why have humans spent thousands of years developing knowledge? Because it is the answer to human problems. Solving human problems is antithetical to mongering power.

Knowledge is a path to somewhere. Power mongers cannot accept a path before them, because any path diminishes their power. Power must be built around the persons; paths do not orient around persons.

But worse, knowledge isn't just any old path; it's the universe coming down and linking to human minds. The universe is too powerful for power mongers to oppose.

The power of truth is that way—it overwhelms corrupters with the power of the universe. Not so obvious is that knowledge does the same thing but in smaller steps. Therefore, a corrupt power monger would recognize the power of truth as an opposing threat but not the incremental steps to truth that knowledge creates.

Not only is knowledge a small step toward truth, it is the machinery which aligns life upon the objective reality of truth. That machinery looks like a war machine to corrupters; but unlike a war machine which is a threat to life, knowledge is a machine which stomps out corruption.

Knowledge stomps out corruption by making relationships between realities, which is rationality. Rationality is a mysterious abstraction to corrupters. They don't know what it is, but if it is a good thing, it must be what they do. It isn't what they do.

Rationality is making relationships between realities, so the consistent relationships are built up, while inconsistent relationships are weakened. Making relationships between reality is the path to doom for power mongers. It's the machinery which they cannot accept.

That situation is not a construction by power mongers, it is an inadequacy which causes them to turn to power mongering as a substitute for constructivity. They can't follow the path of rationality as linking pieces of objective reality together showing and strengthening the relationships to the objective reality which life is made of and the universe imposes upon humans.

Power mongers got that way by not developing abstract reality in their minds. Relationships between realities are abstract. Without abstract reality, relationships do not exist, and reality becomes a scramble of nonsense that is exploited for domination rather than studied for truth and knowledge.

The net effect is that the abstractions of knowledge look like arbitrary impositions to corrupters. So corrupters require a test of validity without abstractions. Seeing is believing to them. They limit their reality to what they can perceive, which leaves out the knowledge that gives perception meaning. Extreme superficiality is the result.

What is the education system without knowledge? It doesn't exist as an education system. So power mongers use it for other purposes. That is why the education system cannot be fixed. Too many power mongers have been using it for other purposes and reshaping it for promoting their domination of society, which of course means a selection process rather than a knowledge-increasing process.

Therefore, attempts to produce knowledge are assumed to be an invalid process by power mongering corrupters. Corrupters assume knowledge is a railroad job. Knowledge certainly railroads them; it diminishes their ability to dominate society. But imposing the universe upon people is not quite what railroads do. Railroad tracks are a lot narrower than the universe is.

Without knowledge in their heads, and without the use of knowledge viewed as a valid process, all attempts to produce knowledge are assumed to be a subjective imposition. In fact, all reality is assumed to be subjective without the objective reality that knowledge creates. It's just a question of whose subjective version of reality should prevail.

Corrupters assume they can arbitrate and impose reality upon everyone, since it is subjective and up for grabs by dominating controllers of power.

Knowledge (being truth) forces corrupters to accept a version of reality which is not acceptable to them; so they assume it is someone else's subjectivity being imposed upon them. The universe is supposedly someone's subjectivity being imposed upon corrupters.