Is Knowledge Power?

I'm not sure that I agree that knowledge is power. It seems to me that knowing things can often lead to a life of worry and misery. Most have had several times where they wished they simply didn't know.

If we didn't know that there was technology in the world or better ways of doing things then we wouldn't feel such a need for it. Knowledge only brings a want of more. For happiness perhaps a sense of nothing and being nothing would be more beneficial.

Perhaps with knowledge you may have the power to do more and manipulate life, but then with out the knowledge you wouldn't need to so in a sense you'd have ultimate power. The power of not needing power perhaps.

Although it can be nice to understand how things work and explain them to people because it gives you a sense of knowing it can also be nice to enjoy the simplicity of it just simply works. Why do we need food? Why do we need water? Isn't it more relaxing to simply know that if you don't get food or water you won't exist anymore?

I'm not saying that knowledge is not good or powerful but it just makes me ponder whether or not we are truly better with it. When I was younger I found that I was happier most of the time and it was easier to feel "alive" because I didn't understand the complexity of life. Now with understanding it seems to bring more misery with knowing why things are the way they are. The world isn't black and white but it's easier for humans to keep sanity believing that it is. Knowledge takes this ability away as we realized the world is one large gray area where neither good nor bad exist. Murder is is good nor bad, it's all in the eye of the beholder.

Society tends to have a standard of what is right and wrong, but who decides these? In the end does it really exist? No, as I've stated life is not black and white it's one big gray area. Would we sleep better believing a simplicity such as murder is wrong and no one should rape another? Most likely a lot of us would. But, the more knowledge you gain the more confusion you will obtain to go along with it. The world is simpler in the dark then in the light of day.