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Have you ever wished to be ignorant? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I use ProtonMail, and I was thinking, "Damn, it's spectacular not being tracked... but hold on a minute. Perhaps less than gmail, but still at all. And what about browser fingerprinting, and cookies, and even fonts!" I ended up in that feedback loop we all end up in. Perhaps ignorance is bliss? What is something you (might) wish you were ignorant of?

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Many things at many times, but never about my personal life and thoughts, and that of my immediate circle. It's things like why Kissinger was infamous or what Belgium was doing in Congo some years ago, and how it seems at times that I "swim in the sea of the unconscious" (from Persona 4's OP, wonderful game!) and I can't seem to find any solution to it besides waking people up one by one and the destiny of the world lies on people who know what Labubu is but don't know why they do the things they do because they're consumerist, hedonistic, unthinking automatons (to certain degrees, of course, but the Western ideological vacuum leaves people to default into it. And God has been dead there since at least Nietzsche's days)...

But then I take a deep breath and remember I too will die in due time and whatever responsibility I feel for this world will die with me. And also, I'm just one man. 🤷