Ignorance is a sweet poison. Knowledge is the bitter cure

Ever think back to the time you were but a wee lad or lass who cared nothing about the struggles of the world besides getting the latest toys, watching the latest cartoons and playing with your classmates. Makes you feel old doesn’t it? But then you remember how…”less knowledgeable” you were in those times, i mean long division still brings shivers to the spines of certain people, the mere thought of your 7 year old self struggling with addition and subtraction makes you cringe. As you get older you get wiser; you begin to comprehend the inner working of he world, selfishness, dishonesty, corruption; you become jaded to the world and its ugliness. Eventually you are fully exposed to them and it makes you wonder if you could ever go back to those simpler times.

We might want to escape sometimes into the world of oblivion; that is alright everybody needs a breather from reality every once in a while. When things get too frustrating we don’t want to think. While it may seem like a curse, it is a necessary one. Without the thirst for knowledge we are left to believe everything that we are told, accepting without engaging.

We have seen what ignorance is capable of causing in our society, there is no way that something like what happened on January 6th would have happened if the participants had been passive knowledge seekers. Of course there are many other factors that contributed, but my point is that while those simpler times were enjoyable, we were never meant to be left in the dark for the entirety of our lives, we are supposed to get out there and learn, and make our own choices about certain matters.

ps. sorry if this was a bit ramble