When Knowledge Becomes a Bait: How the Myth of Prometheus Mirrors Our Modern Quest

Knowledge is always destructive for the one who doesn’t know what it is.

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When I watched a cartoon about Prometheus as a child, I really liked him. He was portrayed as a hero who stole the secret fire of knowledge in defiance of Zeus’s will and gave it to humans as a gift. In the Enlightenment’s interpretation, the gods withheld Fire from humans out of jealousy. Prometheus’s sacrifice for humanity was almost Chr…