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CAT 2016 Verbal and Reading Comprehension

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The following question consists of a paragraph which is followed by four options. Among the given options, choose the one which captures the essence of the paragraph accurately and clearly. Type in that option as the answer in the space provided below the question.

There is a difference between knowingness and knowledge, but what is it? Knowingness comes after knowledge; it is only the echo of its source, and it is proud to be the echo. One of the liberties of our connected age is that we can be almost infinitely knowing, consoling our lack of true knowledge with an easy cynicism of acquisition. It is cheaply glorious to be able to discover almost any fact about the world. On the machine I am using to write this review; I experience that liberty as the reward it is. and also as a punishment; as both a gift of the digital world and a judgment on my scant acquaintance with the actual world. Speak for yourself, you may say. Who is this "we." so easily invoked? If knowingness is capitalism s gift to those metropolitan Elites who haven’t earned it. there are also multitudes of people, constrained by poverty and political oppression and the bad luck of obscurity, who don't deserve the brutal “knowledge" that is being meted out daily on their lives; they would be very grateful for the privileges of knowingness.

Those overlooked by capitalism would willingly choose knowledge and this diminishes the value of the argument of cynicism made by the sheltered elites about knowledge.
Capitalism shields the elites from a full acquaintance with the world while exposing the poor to the world and this explains their different attitudes towards privileges.
The ease of acquisition is a reward for the underprivileged that would be grateful for even the 'cheap glory’ associated with it.
The cynical argument of the ease of knowingness wanes when one grasps that those less fortunate would gladly embrace this 'ease' rather than an immersed acquaintance with the world.

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