Ignorance is Powerful
Ignorance is more powerful than knowledge. Don’t believe me? Look around you. Which force is shaping the world around YOU?
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November 28th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
yeah yeah, whatever…
;-)
December 1st, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Nice theory, but not thought through. Ignorance is relative. 20 years, 30 years ago we didn’t know much about climate change. Now we do. Now we know that our ‘leaders’ are ‘ignorant’ for not doing enough. But 20, 20 years ago we’d have been amazed that one day they’d be doing so ‘much’ (talking to each other, starting to take it seriously).
Ignorance is relative not only in time but across knowledge areas, or ’space’. It seems that the technology of the spammers is ruining it for everyone - the ‘ignorant’ without a social conscience who prey on the weak and other ‘ignorants’. Yet these spammers are often highly skilled people, so do we just choose an aspect that we call ‘ignorance’ to focus on?
What’s shaping the world around me? A growing well of knowledge and insight, driven by real people, and at the bleeding edge of that knowledge and insight are the ‘ignorant’ trying to twist and turn it to their own ends. They’re not shaping the world, they’re tweaking it at the edges.
December 1st, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I can’t agree with you, Richard, although that should not be a big surprise given the topic (!)
Climate change? I read that one volcanic eruption a few years ago reversed 100 years of “global warming”, when it injected pollution into the stratosphere. We’re not doing enough? I read that recent years of cleaner inner atmosphere (largely due to successful pollution controls) has accelerated global warming. Not that clean air is a bad thing, but clearly our “scientists” are still largely ignorant.
Then again, it is really my position that scientists are not in charge of our science.. politicians are.
December 2nd, 2009 at 3:39 am
In some way I agree with you. But on the other I personally think that it is not ignorance that shapes the world around us but rahter a more egoistic behavior. What do you think? Ok, when you see egoistic behavior in this context is equal to ignorance than you are right, otherwise you have to seperate.
December 4th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Socrates would have said no one knows anything of importance
December 14th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Ignorance is the behavior of interpersonal skills, associated with intentional lack of will to respect other or not aware action, due to lack of knowledge. so i think that: no knowledge makes ignorance. But don’t think it’s more powerful.
December 15th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Outnumbers us, that’s for sure.
BTW, try the movie Idiocracy.
December 25th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Hey John
Unfortunately, I have to agree to this statement. At least in Germany it today is like that in those days.
I even do not really feel good about my son growing up in those days, where the youth is completely respectless, start taking drugs with 10, etc……..
In the last ten years, in my country, became not good at all.
Very sad statement you make, but today it is becoming the truth more and more :-(
January 26th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
People learn as long as he lives and dies but ignorant!
February 4th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Ignorance is Power means that as long as you believe what you are told, the state has the power to justify whatever it wants. Example: in 1998, Clinton ordered tomahawk missles to be fired at a Sudanese Pharmaceutical plant. His rationale was that it was being used to construct bio-weapons. Six months later, the government quietly admitted that it had no conclusive evidence of this.