Prime Time Gnosticism: Why MacGyver doesn't always know the answer

I don’t know how old I was when I first saw him. But I was fascinated by him. Here was a man who could do almost anything, who could fix it all, and who didn’t need a lot to do it. It made me think that I could do anything too! With that wavy mullet and cool name he was all I wanted to be as a little kid in the 80’s. MacGyver was the best thing on television as far as I was concerned. I already loved taking things apart, it was the putting them back together that proved to be a little more difficult. What MacGyver showed me was that you needed was a little knowledge and you could build the most amazing things. I had all those things he used around my house. All I was lacking was knowledge. MacGyver was the epitome of knowledge is power. He constantly fought off the bad guys using only the knowledge in his brain, and that trusty swiss army knife. I was convinced that I could do the same thing, with a little knowledge like him. My parents were quick to tel