When Knowledge Becomes Dangerous?

Modern culture usually treats knowledge as something automatically positive: more information, more freedom, more power, more progress.

But older traditions were often more cautious. Some knowledge was considered dangerous not because it was necessarily evil, but because a person could encounter it before being ready to understand or control it.

That idea runs through Army of Darkness (1992) forbidden books, dangerous words, and knowledge that can completely change the person who reaches for it.