Does anyone else feel like the more they learn about fucked up history and current events the more we have to worry about? The older I get, and as I learn about history, the more things I have to think about that keep me up at night. Maybe ignorance is bliss after all?
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 enough, I’ll hear about it from others or see a meme in /c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world.
All I can hear is Cipher from the Matrix.
Ignorance absolutely is bliss. However, it also comes with some downsides.
One being easily abused, especially en masse.
How has your lack of ignorance prevented any.of that?
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.
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.
For example, by learning engineering it made me loose my jewish faith…
The Conservatives are right to worry about University. I mean faith leaders expect to loose biology majors, but when engineers are getting de-converted you’ve got a serious problem.
No.
Ignorance is ignorance.
I don’t know that that’s true
Ignorance is bliss because the cause of all suffering is desire.
It doesn’t mean there is no harm in ignorance, but I think it’s important people don’t just panic wildly. That’s just as useless as being ignorant but it feels worse.
Shove that blue crayon up my nose!
Extended warranty? How can I lose!
Literally just finished watching that episode🤣
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.
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
Just take one of these and you’ll feel much better. 😆
fair
I deeply love learning fucked up history. But I also like hearing other people share their niche interests with me so I try not to explore everything myself.
Part of the joy is learning it vicariously through passionate individuals
For me it’s not history, but niche things that I would learn and then never be able to use, where when I didn’t know I had zero complaints.
Sometimes it is better to not know, so I can not care about trivial things.
