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.

No.

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.

Ignorance absolutely is bliss. However, it also comes with some downsides.

One being easily abused, especially en masse.

Shove that blue crayon up my nose!

Extended warranty? How can I lose!

Ignorance is ignorance.

fair

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.

Ignorance of the ignorable is bliss. Ignorance of the intrusive adds terror to injury. It's an amplifier. In other words, if it doesn't affect you personally, being able to ignore it makes it not part if your reality and unable to cause suffering. If it does affect you personally, you not only experience the problem but the terror of not understanding the problem.

It almost feels like I am being aged by knowledge and experience more than I am by biological decay.

Ignorance is bliss, but it also means you're not seeing the world clearly

Which is probably fine if you only care about yourself, but it means you're going to have warped views. Views that will hurt other people

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

https://youtu.be/z9pD_UK6vGU

Just take one of these and you’ll feel much better. 😆

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

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.

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.

Part of knowing is learning how to deal with the shit.

Im more worried about the present and the future. What concerns me is when we are not trying to get better or even glorify worse.

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.

No, you don't have to worry much about things that are out of your control. Like I don't appreciate the president of America being a criminal and a pedophile, but it's not my country and it doesn't really affect my daily life much. So I'll just file that somewhere in my brain's long term storage, but I don't let it influence my brain's RAM when it doesn't need to. Maybe when I'm pumping gas, or discussing European cloud in LinkedIn, I'll think about it for a hot second and then store it back in long term storage.

All knowledge is good knowledge!

It is bliss, and I almost wish I was ignorant enough not to care. But I'm glad I'm not so I can help enact change. Well at least try to.....

Edit: overall the world would be a much better place if people were less ignorant. I'm just so tired of feeling helpless.

Nah, fuck this tbh.

You might enjoy the song "To Know the Unknown" by Innosense.