My posts about ignorance here and here will better fit into this thread.
(04-14-2022, 12:44 PM)tadeus Wrote: Here is an interesting Video that fits here:
Ignorance is the Exercise of our Last Freedom (à la Krishnamurti)
Min. 1:10 "Ignorance is a choice we make"
When ignorance is a choice I would say it is a choice for STS ?
(04-15-2022, 03:24 AM)tadeus Wrote:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ignorance Wrote:Definition of ignorance
: the state or fact of being ignorant : lack of knowledge, education, or awareness
Definition of ignorant
1a : destitute of knowledge or education an ignorant society also : lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified parents ignorant of modern mathematics
1b : resulting from or showing lack of knowledge or intelligence ignorant errors
2 : unaware, uninformed
Definition of ignore
transitive verb
1 : to refuse to take notice of
2 : to reject (a bill of indictment) as ungrounded
The word ignorance is definitely ambiguous, in the dictionary it is connected to knowledge and intelligence onesided.
I think in the video the word is used as noun for the verb ignore.
The really difference is very subtle, because someone can ignore something because he has no knowledge about it - that is caused by the "sinkhole of indifference", or he has got the knowledge and is actively ignoring something by choice.
This process of "actively ignoring something by choice" can be caused itself by psychological mechanisms such as cognitive dissonance or the panopticon.