How much knowledge is enough

But this -- is a Nothing, which is "ein Hunger zum Etwas" {"an hunger to be something"}. And together with this the Ungrund is freedom.

“No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.”

― Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge