While reading Cat’s Cradle as well as your posts I started to think about
the saying “ignorance is bliss” and what this really means. I always disagreed with this because I have
always thought the world to be such a rich place that not taking advantage of
anything there is to learn would be a shame.
How could anyone be happy not knowing?
It never seemed fulfilling to me.
However, Vonnegut made me question my logic. The world is inherently a place of
uncertainty where almost nothing is ever really true. So, in a sense, we are all living in
ignorance.
Furthermore “ignorance is bliss”
has almost the same meaning as “living by the foma that make you…happy.”
However, I think there is a key difference. Living by a certain set of foma involves
choosing to live by them, constructing your own reality in which to live. Choosing to
live by a set of lies requires a deep awareness, not ignorance.
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