If ignorance is bliss, why are there so many unhappy people?
Real ignorance IS bliss, but most people aren’t technically ignorant, they are very much full of information, sadly it’s wrong information or simply propaganda.
You’ll be happier not knowing
The current president of the US is as ignorant as they come, and he’s miserable. Too stupid to even know he’s stupid.
Fuck. I work with people who are too stupid to recognize how stupid they are. It’s exhausting!
Because ignorance is only bliss when there are no symptoms. Otherwise its scary or infuriating.
You’re doing it wrong. You’re meant to look at people who are happier than you and think smugly “ha… ignorants!”
Because everyone is convinced they are the one who knows
If you’re in the middle of nowhere, with your small loving tribe, and don’t know much about whatever ongoing genocide and needless destruction, or about capitalism and the depraved, Diddy-level hedonism, you might sleep better at night than those who do but also feel powerless to change it. What about having terminal cancer? Wouldn’t it be better to just live your last days in happy ignorance? Information is a double-edged sword, basically, and when you know A, you hate A and you also ‘know’/feel unable to change A, it’s just poison.
They spent too much time in the shower thinking about things.
Ignorance doesn’t seem to be bliss at all. The most ignorant people seem to be the most angry and scared of things they don’t understand
You don’t even know how bad it could be.
