Nah, fuck this tbh.

Ignorance of the ignorable is bliss. Ignorance of the intrusive adds terror to injury. It’s an amplifier. In other words, if it doesn’t affect you personally, being able to ignore it makes it not part if your reality and unable to cause suffering. If it does affect you personally, you not only experience the problem but the terror of not understanding the problem.

Im more worried about the present and the future. What concerns me is when we are not trying to get better or even glorify worse.

It almost feels like I am being aged by knowledge and experience more than I am by biological decay.

Ignorance is bliss, but it also means you’re not seeing the world clearly

Which is probably fine if you only care about yourself, but it means you’re going to have warped views. Views that will hurt other people

1930s German Citizen ass response

Also it just feels antithetical to (my?) idea of showerthoughts to just be like, Shall I ponder this nebulous and complex issue? Naaah

The first fascist you have to defeat is the little one in your hand maaaan

I absolutely bury my head in the sand about the news the last couple years. It’s just constant outrage porn and I already know who is a piece of shit and why. It makes no sense for me to get the daily (hourly?) confirmations of that.

If something is important ebouth, I’ll hear about it from others or see a meme in /c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world.

Hmm, never imagined myself being against that claim.

Some people say ignorance is bliss, I would say it isn’t. For example, by learning engineering it made me loose my jewish faith… and I’m not complaining against it.

what’s worse then knowing everything, being manipulated. for the first 18 years of my life, I’ve been manipulated to believe in something I never understood why. it was my hell.

So yea I’ll take learning analysis, probability, ODEs, fourier series/transforms, any motherfucking day over being manipulated.

Ignorance absolutely is bliss. However, it also comes with some downsides.

One being easily abused, especially en masse.

I feel that way about meaningless things that are trending on social media. I might wake up one day and a new term like hawk tuah has appeared or I see a headline about a sydney sweeney controversy and my first though is that I don’t know what that is or who that is and I’m glad that I don’t. Even better if I don’t hear about it at all - it’s just noise.

Ignorance is ignorance.

No, you don’t have to worry much about things that are out of your control. Like I don’t appreciate the president of America being a criminal and a pedophile, but it’s not my country and it doesn’t really affect my daily life much. So I’ll just file that somewhere in my brain’s long term storage, but I don’t let it influence my brain’s RAM when it doesn’t need to. Maybe when I’m pumping gas, or discussing European cloud in LinkedIn, I’ll think about it for a hot second and then store it back in long term storage.

No. In fact the world would be a better place if more people actually knew what was going on and then maybe feel inclined to do something about it. Knowledge is power and right now, in a lot of places, knowledge is being suppressed as ignorant masses are easier to control and manipulate.

First they came for the socialists, and I blissfully ignored it.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I blissfully ignored it.

Then they came for the Jews, and I blissfully ignored it.

Then they came for me, and I could not ignore it.

—boaratio

Part of knowing is learning how to deal with the shit.