A Conquest

I like to know things. Same as everyone else. No biggie. It's not an outlandish personality trait, in fact it's one of the most common.
It's not an unconventional concept; to learn. It's about learning to observe, with an open mind. Perspective is crucial but needs to be stable, logical, and always, as fore mentioned, objective.
I found myself wishing today for someone that is willing to sit in a book store for ten to twelve hours with me, just taking book after book, consider, choose, and read, even if only a few pages.
Today, I also discovered that people think that knowledge is memorizig things so that you can pass a test whose results define your "intellect." Fuck that. To me, knowledge is being able to take in information, even that which is seen by most as false or "unnecessary." Knowledge is learning how to apply those things into conversation, and create personal stands on the learned information.
Knowledge is not pretending you know things simply because you can speak of them. It's accepting you may be wrong and accepting others' points-of-view. I'm teeming with ideas: both stupid and clever. Right and Wrong. Intricate and straightforward. Blaring and faint.
I want to fabricate a world, original or not, that absorbs knowledge and applies it, not a worlds that glances at knowledge but shies away.
I do not want to envision such a world...