[throwie_wayward]

I absolutely despise the ancient traditional ways they practice: referring to their techniques of 'mystery', secrecy, and occultation of knowledge (which they do in order to construct knowledge as authority and then wield it as power)

they've overdone it. by this point they have made it way to fucking difficult for people to truly come to grips with the complexity of modern life mostly becuase in their zealous protection of 'technical knowledge' they've made a life such as my own impossible to realize (this in turn, stunts the advancement and development of ways to cope with the consequences of modernity and high-technology in the culture at large, becuase people cannot learn to undesrtand enough that they can figure it out; they move us to a scenario in which only their own chosen selected few are in a position from which something could be done; but they select for obedience and dullness; not for spark)

Maybe my reasoning is leaping a lot; but as I see things, this attitude towards knowledge and understanding is the cause of the now troubling distrust in the academic-scientific apparatus by a largely ignorant public (an ignorance which is somebody's profit).

this attitude has stunted my own personal pursuit of happiness. that I cannot easily come to understand their 'propietary' techniques (higher-order logical systems, advanced litography, etc) that they use to do what they do is just frustrating.

I'll end by adding that there are many more instances of this attitude around knowledge in other subjects I've studied... even some which are no longer considered 'sacred' (in more 'developed' countries) but which were still making people act all mysterious and in awe of 'the knowledge' in my own famously ignorant native country.

[skrebbel]

I have no clue what you’re on about. ASML has hardly any culture of secrecy to speak of, or at least in comparison to famously secretive companies like Apple.

Talk to a random ASML engineer at a party and they’ll enthusiastically tell you everything about what they’re working on.

[mensetmanusman]

What you are describing is tacit knowledge. Something obvious to the workers- but not to outsiders.

Tacit knowledge is hard to pass down in written form because a reader would be overwhelmed by details. It is easier to pass down over video, but video loses information about smell, vibration, static charge, etc. that the human body can feel and learn from.

[jdmdmdmdmd]

>construct knowledge as authority

Can you explain why you used the word construct here?

[throwie_wayward]

because 'knowledge' on its own will not work to wield power over others just by itself. there are other ingredients in ensuring that knowledge can be used as power; these usually look like 'technology'.

I should also say that it's only due to the internet (and its novel aggregation-theory dynamics) that these old attitudes I am ranting against become truly noxious.