Freedom is not free. Freedom has to be fought for and at a price.

[Loki]

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"

I would say it is a choice for STS ?

Someone can be ignorant about something or someone can ignore something.
These are two very different concepts which should not be confused.
Someone can be ignorant and fight like hell for what he understands as freedom. And freedom looks different from each side of the fence. Free will entitles every creature to its own freedom including the one to kill others. Who are we to throw stones? Ra never does.

For me ignorance is not a choice we make it is an adversity we need to overcome because we are born in ignorance. The illusion is the cornerstone of ignorance because it delivers us into separation.
The journey on this Earth is intended to make us escape the ignorance/separation around us and in us.

More we learn to ignore our ego and other people ego more we lose our ignorance, because we can only ignore things we make peace with.