The Librarians and Knowledge as a Weapon
The moral case for making sure you use knowledge wisely, even if it's as a weapon.
Knowledge is power.
The more knowledge you have, the more you can use your advantage. If you know something about someone, you can use that to make them do things they wouldn't otherwise want to do. You can also get people to trust you because of that knowledge and potentially do good things with it. More than that, if you're educated enough you have the power to create all kinds of powerful things. Fixing cars is something people will pay you to do thanks to the fact that they like what works. It's the backbone of a functional society. This is why we like people who know things. However, this is only a good thing if the people who have access to it are good people with the best of intentions. Giving this same knowledge to people who like to do bad things will often lead to these people using that knowledge to hurt other people who don't have it.
As a result, it's important to keep some knowledge from others. Particularly for something like a weapon or a secret that can be used against someone. So long as the people in charge of that knowledge are willing to use it in the service of helping others, this makes it a powerful weapon against bad people. You can keep them from doing too much damage and hopefully use that knowledge to repair whatever damage they are able to do. But in keeping that knowledge from too many people, this can also be bad. If this knowledge could help people but the ones who need it can't access it, people could die. Which makes the use of knowledge a delicate balance. You have to allow enough of it to get out for people to use it but still keep enough of it hidden that it can't be used for terrible reasons.
Maybe the best solution for this is to create a place for knowledge. A store house full of knowledge where those who need it can get it but you can also keep the most important, dangerous stuff hidden. Traditionally, this has been a place of books, a library. And the people who can help them access it being librarians. People who serve the public's interest and give their lives to the protection of knowledge to ensure future generations can have it.
The Librarians is very much about the delicate balance between using knowledge to help others and those who would use it for not so great things. Eve Baird, Ezekiel Jones, Cassandra Cillian and Jacob Stone, as played brilliantly by Rebecca Romjin, John Harlan Kim, Lindy Booth and Christian Kane, are in charge of protecting some of the most dangerous knowledge in the world. At the same time, their job is to use that knowledge to help people by stopping those who would use it for bad things. They walk that very difficult line between what's best for everyone and what's best for them.
Do yourself a favour and explore the ways in which knowledge can be used as a weapon by checking out The Librarians as soon as you can.
The Librarians is available on Amazon.